Many wildlife organisations allow you to report a sighting online, including the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. You can also take part in surveys to help gather data on the red squirrel population. Local ...

Government plans to protect species by increasing woodland and removing greys, but campaigners say it needs to go further ...

The native red squirrels found scurrying around the forests of Britain are harboring a secret. The rodents with a penchant for nuts and pine cones have been found to be carrying multiple strains of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red squirrels are sadly under threat, and experts warn that without public support, the mammals could face extinction in England.

Conservationists have hailed the "super-exciting" success of a rare colony of red squirrels discovered on a tree plantation in North Yorkshire. The animals were first identified in January, in a sitka ...

Adorable footage shows a pair of red squirrel kits born in a safari park which is helping protect the species. The first red squirrel kits to be born at Longleat in Wiltshire for over three years have ...

Urban ecologists have found some species, like Britain’s hedgehogs, have struggled to cope. But other species, often called “synurbic”, have proven themselves very adaptable and, in some cases, they ...

Philip Cox has received funding from the Royal Society. Red squirrels have been replaced over a large part of Great Britain by the non-native grey squirrel, introduced from North America in the late ...

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Red squirrels on the Isle of Wight are thriving and have sufficient food and natural habitats to support a growth in their population, a new study has found. Scientists also found that while the ...

In nature, it really is survival of the fittest. Photos of a red squirrel and woodpecker have gone viral after they showed the two animals fighting each other for nuts. Karen Crawford took the ...