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- Save Our Reds’ petition has over 75,000 signatures urging a UK national plan to protect England’s red squirrels.
- Founder Marie Carter-Robb says actions are fragmented and need coordinated funding.
- Defra monitors red squirrels in Cumbria and Northumberland, works with landowners on grey-squirrel control.
- The group estimates England has few as 15,000 red squirrels of a total 120,000-160,000 and warns the species could vanish in 25 years.
