2022-09-30 | Saving the red squirrel - an update from the field
Funded by the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) and supporters, the Animal & Plant Health Agency’s (APHA) Wildlife Team is developing an oral contraceptive and species specific feeding hopper to manage populations of grey squirrels in the UK. This work hopes to reduce the damaging effects they have on native red squirrels, trees and woodland ecosystems.
For Red Squirrel Awareness Week 2022, Sarah Beatham provides an update on hopper progress. So a feeder will be developed that delivers a bait containing contraceptives to most grey squirrels, while preventing access by red squirrels and other species....