Derek Mooney
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first heard Apr 2026
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It's a really successful method that was developed in 2020 in Aberdeen and has now almost finished the job in Aberdeen City and has been used to move the population further south in Scotland as well.
Yes.
Okay, well, so the story of the red squirrel in Ireland has been somewhat of a conservation good news story because with Pine Martin recovery across much of the landscape, we've seen grey squirrel populations decline and red squirrels recover, which is a really good news conservation story and definitely something to be celebrated.
The issue that was identified in the most recent All-Ireland conference
pine martin and squirrel survey is that these big urban areas in the north in Belfast and in the south mainly the greater Dublin Wicklow region is that there's these absolutely huge populations of grey squirrels that pine martins aren't going to impact because pine martins although they do come into the urban environment and they are detected
in Aberdeen and they are actually detected in Dublin there was one recently detected in the Phoenix Park in October on a trail camera but they're not going to impact grey squirrels in an urban environment so unless something is done about these urban populations there will always be the threat of them spreading back out from the cities which they could do quite quickly if circumstances were to change for the
And then we'd be right back where we were in a pretty short period in terms of having grey squirrels across most of the country.
And we know the squirrel pox virus is present in the Dublin Wicklow population of grey squirrels as well.
Well, the main thing currently is that pine martins aren't using those urban environments and aren't suppressing them.
That's the main factor.
But also in general, why grey squirrels do well and are so numerous and I guess so visible is that they're bolder than red squirrels.
And I must always say red squirrels will occupy the same urban environments.
They're just less visible and less numerous.
And but grey squirrels are very obvious there.
They do really benefit from, you know, supplementary feeding and people's bird feeders.
And and yeah, they they live in really high numbers.
And what so in Aberdeen, I had the opportunity of putting GPS collars on 10 grey squirrels in Aberdeen City to see how they were using the urban environment.
And most of them actually were and dreying in.
So you say like the parks, like the bigger kind of the bigger spaces with trees and green spaces.
And so I think almost all of them were at least dreying there.
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