{"id":562083,"date":"2026-05-02T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:15:08","slug":"urgent-calls-to-prevent-the-extinction-of-red-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562083\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent calls to prevent the extinction of red squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carter-Robb, said: &#8220;The map is shocking. It makes the reality impossible to ignore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is not theoretical, without action we will lose our red squirrels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the &#8220;urgent actions that need to be brought together&#8221; were &#8220;fragmented&#8221; and &#8220;we are simply managing decline&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The campaign called for a national plan to humanely manage grey squirrel populations and urgent investment in squirrelpox vaccine development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also wants support for fertility control research and deployment, and protection and enforcement of red squirrel habitat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need government, conservation bodies, landowners, scientists and campaigners around the same table. The tools exist or are being developed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What is missing is coordination, funding and urgency,&#8221; Carter-Robb added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation suggested that while it was illegal to kill red squirrels, their habitats were being destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carter-Robb, said: &#8220;The map is shocking. It makes the reality impossible to ignore. &#8220;This is not theoretical, without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-562083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562083","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=562083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}