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⚠️ The largest threat to red squirrels is the invasive grey squirrel which outcompetes them for resources and spreads squirrel pox, a disease that doesn’t affect grey squirrels but is deadly for red squirrels

😴 In winter they don’t hibernate, but they do conserve energy by resting and sleeping more. Fresh food becomes scarce at this time, so they rely on stores of food they have kept in trees

🌳Higher populations found in mixed broadleaf and coniferous woodland areas where there is greater diversity of species and availability of food. They live in dreys made from interwoven twigs and lined with moss, leaves and grass

😊They have a lifespan of 6 years on average

⚠️It is a species of special concern, please submit any sightings using CEDaR’s invasive species recording form: www2.habitas.org.uk/records/ISI

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🚫Under the Alien Species Order NI 2019 it is an offence to keep, breed or transport this species. Offence under the Wildlife and countryside Act to knowingly distribute this species

💷Estimated to cost the agricultural industry in Scotland £10million annually

🌳Found in NZ in shady and wooded areas. Introduced to NI in the early 1960s, has been found here in gardens, nurseries, parks, pasture and woodland.

🪱Feeds exclusively on earthworms in some cases reducing populations by 20%