El Annie
Monday 10th March 2003, 20:58
An outbreak of a virus deadly to red squirrels is threatening the few remaining colonies in the UK. The disease has been reported for the first time in Sefton, Merseyside, the most southerly mainland population of the species. Red squirrels in this area represent a significant proportion of the UK's declining red squirrel population. Earlier this week one was confirmed as having died from the parapox virus which is capable of devastating red squirrel populations. The disease is carried by grey squirrels without causing them harm but red squirrels have no immunity. Once infected, reds will die within a matter of weeks or even days. Treatment is difficult and rarely successful.
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Road signs used to protect frogs.....................
Motorists were yesterday urged to give priority to migrating frogs and toads crossing a busy main road on the way to their breeding ground. Stafford Borough Council has put up warnings signs along the road near the Doxey Marshes nature reserve, in the Midlands. It hopes that putting up the red triangle signs featuring a picture of toad will reduce the death toll along a migratory route used for thousands of years.
More information - Scotland on Sunday
From today's conserv@tion - http://www.habitat.org.uk/news1.htm
Annie
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More information - Ananova
Road signs used to protect frogs.....................
Motorists were yesterday urged to give priority to migrating frogs and toads crossing a busy main road on the way to their breeding ground. Stafford Borough Council has put up warnings signs along the road near the Doxey Marshes nature reserve, in the Midlands. It hopes that putting up the red triangle signs featuring a picture of toad will reduce the death toll along a migratory route used for thousands of years.
More information - Scotland on Sunday
From today's conserv@tion - http://www.habitat.org.uk/news1.htm
Annie
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