Scientific investigations before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin in 2020 show that urban red squirrels are extremely flexible in adjusting their diurnal activities to the presence of humans ...
Mt. Graham is known as a sky island, a mountain ecosystem surrounded by a “sea of desert.” Its isolation makes the Mt. Graham ...
If New Year’s resolutions include spending more time outdoors, keep your eyes and ears open for red squirrels. They’re sporting their brightest, thickest fur this time of year and ready to pitch a fit ...
Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel ...
The Mount Graham red squirrel continues its climb back from the brink, seven years after a wildfire nearly wiped it out. The endangered rodent’s numbers have jumped by more than 61% over the past year ...
The Mount Graham red squirrel faces "a significant risk of extinction," according to a University of Arizona biologist who monitors them. A captive-breeding program is being contemplated to head off ...
With writer Sue Pike away, this is a reprised edition of Nature News from August 2023. I put up my bird feeders last week and started thinking about what to do about the squirrels that usually take ...
The endangered Mount Graham red squirrel population has stabilized at around 232 individuals, even during a persistent drought in the Sky Islands. Conservation efforts have helped the species recover ...