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Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels (SSRS), working together with our sister project Red Squirrels in South Scotland and the Highland Red Squirrel Project (Feoragan Ruadh na Gaidhealthachd), is the first nationally co-ordinated attempt to save Britain’s only native squirrel species, the red squirrel. This map shows the broad regions of coverage by the project. Each region will have a dedicated project officer. Within these regions, work will focus on key areas determined by studies of the distribution and movements of red and grey squirrels based on squirrel distribution data collected by the Scottish Squirrel Survey.
Our project officers will cover the following regional areas accordingly:
- Project Officer North East, Hollie Walker, will cover the City of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, and Moray
- Project Officer Tayside, Ken Neil, will cover Perthshire and Angus
- Project Officer for Argyll and the Trossachs, Lewis Pate, covers parts of Argyll, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and Stirling.
- Red Squirrels in South Scotland Project Officers Richard Wales and Stephanie Johnstone cover the Scottish Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, South and East Ayrshire and the southern parts of South Lanarkshire.
- In the Highlands, SSRS will collaborate with the region’s red squirrel conservation project, Feoragan Ruadh na Gaidhealthachd, (Red Squirrels in the Highlands) which employs its own Project Officer.
