British red deer could suffer the same fate as the red squirrel, a study has warned. Red deer are being outcompeted by sika ...

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 ...

Red squirrels are sadly under threat, and experts warn that without public support, the mammals could face extinction in England. The animals were recently named by The Mammal Society as being on the ...

Grey squirrels are an invasive, non-native species introduced from North America to sites in Great Britain and Ireland between 1876 to 1929. They out-compete the native red squirrels and multiply ...

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 ...

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 ...

North East journalist Marie Carter-Robb publishes a children’s book as her red squirrel petition nears 70,000 signatures, urging action to ...

The range of red squirrels in the Highlands has increased by more than 25% in a decade following a reintroduction project by a rewilding charity. Surveys for the charity Trees for Life show more than ...

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 ...