Vani is one of our youngest volunteers. She’s been volunteering with us, along with her dad and sister, in Aberdeen for over two years, and the hours she’s spent monitoring feeder boxes have helped her achieve her Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Awards. She’s now working towards the Gold Award. We asked her […]
SSRS staff and the team of around 30 volunteers have a very important job to do in Aberdeen City, confirming the absence of grey squirrels. We caught up with Abi, Eradication Officer in the North East, to ask what her day to day looks like as we approach complete eradication. Something strange […]
After escaping a zoo enclosure in 1971, a small number of grey squirrels quickly gained a foothold in Aberdeen. Since 2009, SSRS has worked with local partners to reduce grey squirrel population density and distribution in the north east. Our work to date has been very successful, and we are now aiming to completely eradicate […]
Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels has received a red squirrel sighting near Duthie Park, one of the closest sightings to Aberdeen city centre in the project’s ten-year history. The red squirrel was spotted in a garden north of Duthie Park, near the river Dee, an area that has only known grey squirrels for several […]
