“We’re now finding evidence of new squirrels in all directions from the plantation,” she said.<\/p>\n
“They’ve been spotted up to six miles away.”<\/p>\n
The Yorkshire Dales Red Squirrel Alliance, formed earlier this year, now has more than 40 active volunteers.<\/p>\n
Their work includes maintaining feeders in areas where natural food is scarce, monitoring squirrel movements and managing the population of non-native grey squirrels.<\/p>\n
But Ms Bailey insisted that everyone had a role to play when it came to protecting red squirrels.<\/p>\n
“When people are walking in woodlands and spot a squirrel, it’s vital they report the sighting,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It helps us track population densities and stay vigilant about any greys.”<\/p>\n
She also urged people not to interfere with red squirrels.<\/p>\n
“It is absolutely essential that the public don’t encourage the hand feeding of squirrels – it does happen occasionally and is very detrimental. <\/p>\n
“It makes red squirrels tame and it puts them at greater risk of disease transmission.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We’re now finding evidence of new squirrels in all directions from the plantation,” she said. “They’ve been spotted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-197434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}