Strategy to protect the Red Squirrels: Improve habitat, establish a local squirrel group network and maintain a national database. This strategy will help us to focus on areas where we can maximise our efforts to protect this endangered species and sets out clear ways of working with foresters and other groups which can help red squirrels survive.The contribution that foresters and landowners continue to make and to managing the woodland habitat to favour red squirrels, and also controlling competing grey squirrels in woodlands, is crucial to the long-term future of red squirrels.The strategy moves us in the direction of identifying where such work is going to be most effective and should improve even more close working between forest managers and local groups to conserve these important red squirrel populations.
