BBC Wildlife Magazine

Wendy Fail

Sixteen years ago, Wendy Fail successfully reintroduced Europe’s smallest, and arguably cutest, rodent to Northumberland. It’s just that she didn’t know it until now.

“We’d spent months lovingly breeding these mice, so we didn’t want to release them all in one go.”

Back in 2004, harvest mice were found no

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