Ian White

PTES Dormouse and Training Officer

The National
Dormouse
Monitoring
Programme

People’s Trust for Endangered Species, 3 Cloisters House, 8 Battersea Park Road, London SW84BG
Registered charity no 274206
Dormouse decline?
Why are Dormice rare?
5 sites with
dormouse boxes
in 1988
Dormouse BAP: Maintain
Enhance
NDMP: Reintroduce

• 50 boxes in a site with dormice

• Approximately 20m apart
• Check minimum of twice a year in
May/June and Sept/October
• Record number of dormice and basic
biometric data
• Submit results annually to PTES
A ‘trained’ public survey
Data in the NDMP
• 1990 with 13 sites
• 2014 389 sites, increasing by 10% per year
1990 2000 2010 2012 2014
Sites 13 117 273 3500 356

No 1,092 16,630 21,361 24,187 18,468

Boxes
Boxes 5,984 45,778 101,524 116,000 119,277
Checked
Dormice 885 5,427 9,333 6,831 6,362
recorded
Dormouse Groups/projects
• Sussex Dormouse Group
• Hampshire Dormouse Group
• Kent Mammal Group
• Surrey Dormouse Group
• Bedfordshire Dormouse
Group
• Derbyshire Mammal Group
• Northwest Dormouse
Partnership
• Dormice on your Doorstep
Communication
21st Birthday in 2009
www.ptes.org

• Presentations • Train the

• Sexing trainers
• Videos • Dormouse
courses
Dormouse boxes

12,346 distributed to over 150 sites since 2010

Data in the NDMP
200

150
Index (2000=100)

100

50

0
1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015
Limitations of the NDMP:
• Habitat data
• Management at NDMP sites
• Recorder error
BUT the NDMP provides:
• A method for the long-term
monitoring of dormice populations
• A facility to allow people to
interact with wildlife and green
spaces
• A focus for habitat management
People’s Trust for Endangered Species, 3 Cloisters House, 8 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BG
Registered charity no 274206