Red Squirrel Warning Sign

A sign advises motorists and visitors to slow down in a region where red squirrels are protected in the Lake District National Park, on 4th September 2024, in Keswick, England. The sign has been erected by the Penrith & District Red Squirrel Group (P&DRSG) charity whose aim is to record protect the red squirrel in the Lake District National Park, a species that's under threat from the more invasive grey squirrel. The non-native grey squirrel was introduced to England in the late 1870s from America and is the primary cause of decline of the red squirrel. It does so by out-competing red squirrels for food in deciduous and mixed woodlands and by transmitting a disease ‘squirrelpox’, the squirrel Parapoxvirus, which is lethal to red squirrels. Britain now has only 160,000 or so native red squirrels.

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A sign advises motorists and visitors to slow down in a region where red squirrels are protected in the Lake District National Park, on 4th September 2024, in Keswick, England. The sign has been erected by the Penrith & District Red Squirrel Group (P&DRSG) charity whose aim is to record protect the red squirrel in the Lake District National Park, a species that's under threat from the more invasive grey squirrel. The non-native grey squirrel was introduced to England in the late 1870s from America and is the primary cause of decline of the red squirrel. It does so by out-competing red squirrels for food in deciduous and mixed woodlands and by transmitting a disease ‘squirrelpox’, the squirrel Parapoxvirus, which is lethal to red squirrels. Britain now has only 160,000 or so native red squirrels.