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Office for Environmental Protection calls for urgent action after finding government is falling short on most targets

Red squirrels have been replaced over a large part of Great Britain by the non-native grey squirrel, introduced from North America in the late 19th century. Today, the British population of red squirrels (approximately 287,000) is mostly restricted to Scotland, northern England and some offshore islands.

Conservationists at RSPB Wallasea Island in Essex will create a six-hectare lagoon on newly purchased land.

For more than 500 years, no lynx had roamed the British countryside. That changed with the recent release of four of these large cats in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland.