Red squirrels are native to the UK but their population has been driven to the verge of extinction by grey squirrels When Jane and Hugh Kemp started planting Christmas trees in their woodland in the ...

Red squirrels risk becoming extinct in England within the next 25 years, a new government report has warned. Ministers have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Many people are familiar with flying squirrels and red pandas, but imagine an animal that looks like a combination of both: ...

PHOENIX — Animal lovers now have a new piece of good news to go nuts over: a population of endangered red squirrels unique to Arizona is growing slightly. Wildlife officials found there are 233 Mount ...

A petition has been launched calling for the creation of a red squirrel emoji as part of efforts to raise awareness for one of the UK’s most endangered native mammals. The campaign, led by The ...

Red squirrels could vanish from the UK within the next 25 years. A new report warns the species could be lost entirely in a “do nothing scenario.” Natural England’s "England Red Squirrel Recovery ...

Medieval residents of Winchester, England, probably got their leprosy from red squirrels in the area, according to a team of archaeologists and geneticists that studied remains from two archaeological ...

Across large parts of the UK, the native red squirrel has been replaced by the grey squirrel, a North American species. As well as endangering reds, grey squirrels pose a threat to our woodlands ...