Local action...
Red Alert has a network of local volunteer groups who carry out practical conservation work for red squirrels. Some of the work you could be involved in includes...

Handy with a hammer? Fancy doing some practical work?

Making squirrel nesting boxes and feeders...
Many people have small areas of woodland which is regularly visted by red squirrels. Although we have limited information about how significant nest boxes or feeders may be for red squirrel conservation, it is clear that reds do use them. Throughout the region people and volunteer groups make feeders and nest boxes to put up in their woods for the squirrels to use.

Monitoring squirrel populations...
Surveys are regularly carried out for red and grey squirrel distribution. The public help us by sending in their squirrel sightings. Red Alert volunteers regularly monitor key woodlands. We use 'hair tube' monitoring to find out more about squirrels present in a forest. Tubes with sticky pads are attached to trees and baited with food. Squirrels leave telltale hairs and are very useful to us to se which squirrels are present!

If you would like more information about Red Alert or our Local Groups throughout the region, please contact Jason or Simon at Red Alert North West, home of red squirrel conservation.

Could you be a volunteer? All these measures are vitally important and much help is needed.