The red squirrel population across Scotland has remained stable in the past year, according to the latest survey report.
Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels has published its most recent figures, which indicate a continuing decline in grey squirrel territory in the northeast.
In the south of Scotland — Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders and parts of Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire — the number of survey sites reporting red squirrels remained between 51 and 52 per cent. However, the number with grey squirrels fell from 60 per cent to 51 per cent in last year’s survey, while the number with only red squirrels rose from 29 per cent to 34 per cent.
Mel Tonkin, a project manager for Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels, said: “The small changes