This special copy version of our map shows the areas in Wales that are known habitats of red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) .

The map indicates the location of their main population concentrations according to Natural Resources Wales. Red squirrels also occur in other parts of North Wales and Ynys Môn, but are rare and sporadically distributed. Elsewhere in the UK they can occasionally be found in some parts of Northern England, Scotland and Ireland, with some isolated populations on a few islands.

Red squirrels are native to the UK and have lived here since the end of the last ice age. They were once common but are now critically endangered with only a small population in disconnected locations. They have largely been displaced in the UK by the introduced and more adaptable grey squirrel. Survival depends on good woodland cover, both broad-leaf and conifer. Red squirrels are a protected species by UK law.

More information can be found on a number of websites, for example the Red Squirrel Survival Trust or for the Cambrian area the Mid Wales Red Squirrel Project.

Contains data from NRW downloaded via DataMapWales. This is public sector information and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

About this map:

Information is shared from our main map. Representation is best effort and based on available information. Area boundaries for wind farms are simplified or approximated only and are not in any way definitive. They are also likely to change in future.

Wind farm circle markers indicate locations where not much else is known. Speculative wind farms, shown in pink, are known from minimal information, often by company name only and located with reasonable probability derived from that name (optional display in the layer menu).

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Information presented on this map is not guaranteed as acurate, but the features are intended to give a reasonably good idea of location. With that in mind, any part of the map may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes. This map is produced by Deeproot Software using the open source Leaflet JS library.