As winter approaches, Cornwall Wildlife Trust has turned its attention to helping wild mammals and launched an appeal for £16,750. 

Trustee Daniel Eva said: ‘Cornwall is a great place for mammals. We are lucky enough to have good populations of some rare species like the hazel dormouse, the barbastelle and greater horseshoe bat.

‘However they continue to suffer from habitat loss, habitat changes due to lack of management and increasing urban development causing habitat fragmentation.

‘With your help we can better understand the threats they are facing and help to reconnect the places they live.’

With the aim of benefiting all our native mammals, the Trust’s ‘Protecting Cornwall’s Mammals Appeal’ is focusing on five species, the hedgehog, the hazel dormouse, bats, the badger and the beaver.

To donate to Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s ‘Protecting Cornwall’s Mammals Appeal’  please visit www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/appeal