The updated status of the threatened garden dormouse Eliomys quercinus

The garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus), a native European rodent species, has disappeared from large parts of central and eastern Europe and is considered extinct in some countries. We reviewed national red lists and the available information on the occurrence and distribution of the species in all countries where it was previously reported. The garden dormouse is considered regionally extinct in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine, and is classified as e