Only 3,500 mountain hares are left in England, research suggests. The research, published today, said the country's last surviving population of the hares - in the Peak District uplands - was at risk ...

Mountain hare numbers on moorlands in the eastern Highlands have declined to less than one per cent of their initial levels, according to a newly published long-term scientific study. Counts of ...

A survey of mountain hares has been hailed as a success a year after they were made a protected species. Hillwalkers, bird and mammal surveyors, and other outdoor enthusiasts took part in a national ...

A warming climate will shrink and fragment mountain hare habitat in the Swiss Alps. Populations are likely to decline as a result. A warming climate will shrink and fragment mountain hare habitat in ...

The mountain hare is rarely seen in the wild. It lives in the higher regions of the Alps and is famous for its beautiful white winter coat. Now, however, climate change and winter tourism are ...

England's last mountain hares - which date back to the ice age - could be in danger from climate change, according to an expert who has spent five years studying them. Carlos Bedson, a wildlife ...

1. Winter tourism in the European Alps has developed rapidly over the past few decades, leading to the expansion of ski resorts, growing numbers of visitors and a massive increase in snow sport ...

England’s only mountain hare population has low numbers across most of its range – but restoring peatland offers the species hope, new research has found. A study in the journal Ecology and Evolution ...

A new joint venture by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Scottish Land & Estates (SLE) and the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) urging voluntary restraint on large scale culls of mountain ...

The Peak District’s population of mountain hares may be higher than estimated, according to a groundbreaking nocturnal count of a species feared to be under threat. Between two and five times as many ...

More mountain hares have been counted on moorland managed for grouse shoots than unmanaged moorland, gamekeepers and landowner groups have claimed. They are using new methodology to assess numbers of ...