Government plans to protect species by increasing woodland and removing greys, but campaigners say it needs to go further ...

Grey squirrels could be given contraceptives to control invasive species - Native red squirrel numbers have meawnhile ...

Sophie Clarke travels to Cushendun to meet Glens Red Squirrel Group head ranger Daniel McAfee and discover how 18 years of grassroots conservation and community support have helped safeguard one of No ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mount Graham red squirrel population in Arizona has risen more than expected, according to the Arizona Department of Game and ...

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 ...

The Mount Graham red squirrel faces "a significant risk of extinction," according to a University of Arizona biologist who monitors them. A captive-breeding program is being contemplated to head off ...

Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel ...

A pine marten that was teased by a squirrel into casing it in laps around a tree trunk shouldn’t feel bad. Squirrels evade all sorts of predators ...

A local haven praised by visitors as 'serene' and 'beautiful' has been named one of the best spots in the UK to see red ...

Britain's red squirrels – under threat from their promiscuous and disease-bearing North American cousins – may finally have some good news. Scientists said Wednesday the rust-tailed rodents were ...

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 ...

At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...