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Mid of red squirrel in tree, shot follows squirrel as it starts to jump through branches2. Wide of deer in Squirrel enclosure3. Close up of daisies4. Mid of deer5. Wide back shot of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLingfield, Surrey, UK. 7th June 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid of red squirrel in tree, shot follows squirrel as it starts to jump through branches\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of deer in Squirrel enclosure\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of daisies\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of deer\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide back shot of school children entering squirrel enclosure\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of entrance sign for squirrel enclosure \u003cbr/\u003e7. Set up shot David Mills, owner of British Wildlife Centre \u003cbr/\u003e8. Close of sign advertising talk on red squirrels\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Mills, Owner, British Wildlife Centre:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The red squirrel is our native squirrel. The grey squirrel shouldn't be here. It was only introduced 125 years ago from North America. Unfortunately ever since the grey squirrel has been here, the red squirrel has been in decline and so because they are rare - vary rare indeed in the south, we thought it would be a wonderful emblem, our logo if you like, so that's why we chose the red squirrel. They're such iconic little creatures. It's Beatrix Potter's 'Squirrel Nutkin.'\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid pan up of red squirrel climbing on top of feeding cage\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of squirrel feeding\u003cbr/\u003e12.  SOUNDBITE: (English) David Mills, Owner, British Wildlife Centre:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The red squirrel is a delicate little creature and it evolved through time to live on the seeds from pine cones, so that's why you find them up in the pine forests. Living in deciduous woodland, which is what this is, deciduous woodland, it's much more difficult for them (than grey squirrels), because they are selective feeders.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of red squirrel eating, drops his nut shell\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Mills, Owner, British Wildlife Centre:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the winter time they have to rely on stored hazelnuts and beech nuts and things like that. They cannot eat acorns. Grey squirrels can live on acorns. Red Squirrels, they can't digest them. They can eat them, but they can't digest them. They don't have the enzyme in their gut which digests them, so it's wasted.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFormby, Merseyside - 21 October, 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of grey squirrels in tree\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLingfield, Surrey, U.K. 7th June 2010\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of red squirrel eating \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close of squirrel eating \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of Matthew Binstead feeding a baby red squirrel \u003cbr/\u003e19. Close up of baby red squirrel feeding\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Matthew Binstead, Head Keeper, British Wildlife Park:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is a little red squirrel which I'm currently looking after, currently rearing. It was found abandoned by its mother, so we've taken it away to hopefully see it through and look after it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close of baby red squirrel\u003cbr/\u003e22. Mid of baby red squirrel crawling down Matthew Binstead's arm\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Matthew Binstead, Head Keeper, British Wildlife Park:\u003cbr/\u003e\"With the red squirrels we have to check them every day, make sure they are ok. We have to feed them obviously, make sure they have their water, any medication they need for that day as well and just make sure they are generally healthy and happy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Close of baby red squirrel feeding\u003cbr/\u003e25. Close of milk being drawn up in a syringe\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close of baby red squirrel feeding\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Matthew Binstead, Head Keeper, British Wildlife Park:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If we don't do anything to help then they probably will go extinct from the mainland of this country within twenty years or so. Hopefully we'll still have them in the islands (surrounding the U.K. mainland) and hopefully we'll still have them in the reserves where we're looking after them and we're doing as much as we can to control the grey squirrels, but for truly wild ones, there's not much hope at the moment unless something can be thought of to stop the effects and the spread of the grey squirrels.\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. Close of red squirrel feeding in cage\u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide of red squirrel sitting outside the cage on the walkway\u003cbr/\u003e30. Close of red squirrel sitting in a tree\u003cbr/\u003eConservationists in the U.K. have opened the country's largest red squirrel enclosure in the hope of reinstating Britain's wildlife mascot.\u003cbr/\u003eThe red squirrel has long been an emblem for wildlife in Britain. The iconic little rodent was made famous by children's author Beatrix Potter as the character 'Squirrel Nutkin.'\u003cbr/\u003eBut since the arrival of the grey squirrel more than a century ago, the red squirrel has started to disappear in the wild in the south of the UK.\u003cbr/\u003e40 years ago the red squirrel was as common in the U.K. as their larger cousin, the grey squirrel, is today. \u003cbr/\u003eBut this tiny rusty coloured rodent has all but disappeared in the south of Britain and is rapidly declining in the north. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's been displaced by the grey squirrel that was introduced to the U.K. around 125 years ago from North America. \u003cbr/\u003eNow, conservationists at a new red squirrel enclosure at the British Wildlife Park in Surrey, south England are carrying out an extensive conservation project with view to reintroducing the red squirrel to mainland Britain. \u003cbr/\u003eDavid Mills used to be a dairy farmer before he converted his farm in Lingfield into the British Wildlife Park in 1994.   \u003cbr/\u003eHe says he remembers seeing scores of red squirrels near his home in London when he was a child, but now they have all disappeared.  \u003cbr/\u003eHe's embarked on a mission to bring them back to the south of the country and make the creatures the mascot of the wildlife centre. \u003cbr/\u003e\" The red squirrel is our native squirrel. The grey squirrel shouldn't be here. It was only introduced 125 years ago from North America. Unfortunately ever since the grey squirrel has been here, the red squirrel has been in decline and so because they are rare - vary rare indeed in the south, we thought it would be a wonderful emblem, our logo if you like, so that's why we chose the red squirrel. They're such iconic little creatures. It's Beatrix Potter's 'Squirrel Nutkin,'\" says Mills. \u003cbr/\u003eThe red squirrels in this enclosure are protected by a solid wall fence topped with electric wiring to stop any greys coming in. \u003cbr/\u003eOnce grey squirrels get into the red's habitat - the smaller cousin stands little chance of survival. \u003cbr/\u003eGreys are bigger, are able to survive on a wider range of food and can withstand colder winters than red squirrels. \u003cbr/\u003eMost important of all, greys carry a squirrel pox virus which when passed onto red squirrels kills them in less than 2 weeks. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The red squirrel is a delicate little creature and it evolved through time to live on the seeds from pine cones, so that's why you find them up in the pine forests, living in deciduous woodland, which is what this is, it's much more difficult for them (than grey squirrels), because they are selective feeders,\" says Mills.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the winter time they have to rely on stored hazelnuts and beech nuts and things like that. They cannot eat acorns. Grey squirrels can live on acorns. Red Squirrels, they can't digest them. They can eat them, but they can't digest them. They don't have the enzyme in their gut which digests them, so it's wasted,\" he adds. \u003cbr/\u003eThe aim of the British Wildlife Centre is to breed as many red squirrels as possible. \u003cbr/\u003eSo far this year 39 new red squirrels have been born in the centre. Conservationists expect second litters by the end of the summer.  \u003cbr/\u003eMatthew Binstead is Head Keeper at the wildlife centre. \u003cbr/\u003e\"This is a little red squirrel which I'm currently looking after, currently rearing. It was found abandoned by its mother, so we've taken it away to hopefully see it through and look after it,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eThe tiny squirrel is just a few weeks old. Born as the runt of the litter, it needs hand feeding by the staff and round the clock care to ensure its survival. \u003cbr/\u003e\"With the red squirrels we have to check them every day, make sure they are ok. We have to feed them obviously, make sure they have their water, any medication they need for that day as well and just make sure they are generally healthy and happy,\" says Binstead. \u003cbr/\u003eSome of the animals will be given out on loan to other wildlife centres around the county. This is done to ensure that the number of red squirrels is sustained in case of an outbreak of pox virus at the centre.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ultimate aim of the conservationists here is to reinstate the red squirrel population into the wild. \u003cbr/\u003eScientists are trying to develop a vaccine against the squirrel pox virus that can be used to protect the red squirrel, but for now the only hope for the rodent is human intervention - any reintroduction programme would involve culling the grey squirrel population. \u003cbr/\u003eThe U.K. Forestry Commission estimates there to be only 140,000 red squirrels left in the wild in Britain, against more than 2.5 million greys.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' class='rp-full-description' type='button'\u003e\n\u003ci class='fai fa-solid fa-align-left'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cspan 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