Red alert to save squirrels

LONDON - Britain's red squirrels may disappear within the next decade, warned the organisers of a campaign to preserve the rodents…

LONDON - Britain's red squirrels may disappear within the next decade, warned the organisers of a campaign to preserve the rodents. Red squirrels cannot defend themselves adequately from their grey, US cousins, which are "overfed, oversexed, and over here", said one campaigner.

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