This national project, Saving Scotland's Red
Squirrels (SSRS) is co-ordinated by the Scottish Wildlife
Trust (SWT). It was launched in February 2009, and is a
three-year partnership project which aims to halt the decline of
red squirrel populations in key areas of north Scotland and improve
habitat conditions to allow red squirrels to thrive and increase in
number.
This project contributes to the delivery of Scotland's "A Five Year Species
Action Framework", which sets out a strategic approach to the
conservation of 22 selected species in Scotland. The red
squirrel is one of the first species identified as requiring
conservation under the UK Biodiversity
Action Plan, and the UK government has signed up to the Convention on
Biological Diversity which obliges signatory nations to take
care of their native wildlife .
SSRS covers the following areas
and is a sister projct to Red
Squirrels in South Scotland the Red Squirrels of the
Highlands.
For further infomation, click on this link for the SSRS website. Please
send all red squirrels outside Highland to this website. Many
thanks!
