The red squirrel is well looked after here, and it is one of the few places in southern England where you can find them. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable ...

Grey squirrels are larger and can eat a wider range of food than red squirrels. They tend to out-compete red squirrels ... of ...

Red squirrels, once widespread in the UK, have seen their numbers severely decline since the introduction of the invasive grey squirrel. Now, they are only found in a handful of woodland and are ...

There are estimated to be only 160,000 red squirrels remaining in the UK, 75% of which are in Scotland. The disturbing images are another example of the dangers that littering has on wildlife.

The red squirrel is about 30 cm (12 in) long, the tail accounting for nearly a third of the total length. Large adults weigh 240 g (8.4 oz). The range of the red squirrel is from the tree line of ...

Red squirrels in the UK eat a variety of food, depending on where they live. In northern Scotland, red squirrels almost exclusively eat pine cone seeds which they extract by gnawing away the cone ...

"The establishment of a pine marten population on the range will help support the existing on-site efforts to remove grey squirrels for the protection of the local native red squirrel population." ...

A rare colony of red squirrels has been discovered on a tree plantation in the Yorkshire Dales. The endangered species was identified by Julie Bailey from the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA), a ...

Research conducted by the UK’s Animal Plant Health Agency indicates that only four days of baiting is sufficient to treat over 90 percent of gray squirrels in a given woodlot. Because gray squirrels ...

Apart from these differences, and larger size, the northern flying squirrel resembles the southern. Adults are 250-298 mm (10-11.7 in) in total length, and weigh 75-125 g (2.6-4.4 oz). The range is ...