Red Squirrel

The red squirrel is one of the UK’s ‘flagship species’ – our equivalent of China’s giant panda or Asian tigers.

Conservation work at a number of sites in the region has ensured that there are a small number of places where populations of the red squirrel continue to thrive.

The National Trust-owned dunes and woods at Formby Point on the Sefton Coast contain a red squirrel reserve, where visitors can watch and feed the creatures, while woodlands at Borrowdale and Thirlmere in the Lake District also have populations living within them.