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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.
Distribution map of red squirrels
SSRS records have now been uploaded to the National Biodiversity Network Gateway; an interactive compilation of UK biodiversity data. Our red squirrel data is available to see in the map below. The map is interactive so you can zoom in to see distribution at a higher resolution or pan across to your area using the tools in the top left corner.
The distribution is of red squirrels across Scotland for the duration of the SSRS project. You can also view the distribution for the invasive grey squirrel population, by clicking here.
If you know of an area in which red or grey squirrels are present, but it is not marked on the respective map, then you can submit your squirrel sighting here.
A localised 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 for the North East, Annabel Harrison, will cover the City of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, and Moray
- Project Officer for 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 Officer Karen Ramoo covers 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.
