The Animal and Plant Agency has confirmed that a squirrel pox virus is present in South East Northumberland as a conservation group find several dead.

Several red squirrels have been found dead in South East Northumberland as the Animal and Plant Health Agency confirmed that the squirrel pox virus is present in the area.

Squirrel pox is carried by grey squirrels, which are not affected by it, but causes red squirrels to die slowly and painfully ...

Sun catching the edge of the grey cloud on Walney (Image: Ann Hawkins) Conishead Priory on a sunny day (Image: Stephen Cheers ...

A new survey has suggested that England's last remaining strongholds for Red Squirrels are being invaded by the non-native ...

A Clwyd West MS has visited a Denbighshire forest to monitor the release of red squirrels. Darren Millar, who is also the red squirrel species champion in the Senedd, visited Clocaenog Forest to check ...

An eminent naturalist has voiced concerns that a TV crew's powerful floodlights could have put birds and red squirrels at risk at two beauty spots on Anglesey. The high-wattage lights were used to ...

Red squirrels are one of Scotland’s most-loved animals, and the country’s only native squirrel species. Once widespread across Scotland, in recent decades red squirrel populations have ...

According to Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels (SSRS), a campaigning group led by the Scottish Wildlife Trust, red sightings have increased by 30% in a year. The SSRS said it was “incredibly ...

Milko Marchetti, 56, won Nikon’s Comedy Wildlife photo contest with a slapstick scene of a red squirrel diving into a tree in the photographer's native Italy in an image called Stuck Squirrel.

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 ...