PHOENIX - "Al" and "Bob" bound across their cages when Stuart Wells opens the door to their room at the Phoenix Zoo's conservation center. It's an act of aggression, says Wells, the zoo's director of ...

Experts at Belfast Zoo are celebrating a conservation first for Northern Ireland - the first captive breeding of a red squirrel. The breakthrough comes as native red squirrels across Ireland and ...

Not only has the cheeky squirrel taken over a bird nesting box, but it regularly scrambles around inside the visitors' centre A cheeky red squirrel has barricaded up a tawny owl breeding box in the ...

Three red squirrels trapped in the Glens of Antrim last week will form the nucleus of Northern Ireland’s first captive breeding programme for the animal. Two female red squirrels were captured in ...

Staff at a Northumberland wildlife centre are celebrating the arrival of tawny owl chicks. It was thought the birds would be unable to breed at Hauxley nature reserve this year after a squirrel moved ...

Rare red squirrels have started breeding after moving into their new home in North Yorkshire. The small breeding group of native red squirrels moved into the Yorkshire Arboretum, near Castle Howard, ...