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 19th century. Today, the British population of red ...

Lancashire Wildlife Trust has secured £299,986 from Natural England to step up grey squirrel control after the squirrel pox ...

A grey squirrel control officer says there is no other option to trapping and killing the greys after a number of cases of squirrelpox were confirmed in the Borders. Wildlife charities warn that ...

The conservation charity begins to establish the ecological fall out of the blaze at Formby. Experts say deadly virus poses an existential threat to Formby's fragile red squirrel population. Patients ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Liverpool Echo An outbreak of squirrel pox has been confirmed amid the red squirrel population at Formby, with experts ...

Feeding peanuts to red squirrels may be altering the development of their jaws. A population of the endangered rodents living in Formby, Merseyside, have uniquely shaped lower jaws, possibly as the ...

A large team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. has found evidence that red squirrels fed by humans in a town on England's west coast lost muscle mass and experienced ...

The fight to save a "vulnerable" red squirrel population in Merseyside from a fatal virus has been boosted by a grant of £300,000. Last month conservationists sounded the alarm over an outbreak of ...

The Formby red squirrel reserve is a haven of wildlife in a world of relentless urban sprawl. Through the rustling branches of towering pines, the chirrups of birds in their nests can be heard, which ...

Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal Society Open Science. The ...