Wide-eyed and cute as they appear, pine martens are sharp-clawed predators. Their agility and tree-climbing skills make them the enemy of any squirrel. But an innate fear of their predators seems, ...

Red squirrels could be saved by bringing back pine martens to English forests, a study has concluded. The pine marten was once the second most common carnivore in Britain but woodland clearance ...

Pine martens are an important factor in grey squirrel control. “We still have to carry out grey squirrel control, but the presence of the artificial dens in the national forest estate ...

Could the pine marten help boost red squirrel numbers in Ceredigion? Conservationists hope a boost in red squirrel numbers in areas of Scotland which have high pine marten numbers could also be ...

By the 1920s, pine martens were virtually extinct in the UK after centuries of persecution to protect game birds and poultry. Only a population in north-west Scotland and small numbers in northern ...

The media message is simple: the return of pine martens will herald the decline or even eradication of grey squirrels, which, since their arrival from North America in 1876, have caused regional ...

A rodent-eating predator seems an unlikely hero for the red squirrel. But conservationists in Wales are being encouraged by news the native pine marten may be helping their cause. Research from ...

The return of the formerly ostracized pine marten to Scotland is helping native red squirrels regain ground from their invasive grey cousins. In the late 1800s, wealthy Victorians shipped North ...

The return of pine martens to central Ireland has been followed by a resurgence of red squirrels, writes Emma Sheehy. Now that the predatory mammal is being seen south of the Scottish border, the same ...

It might look like a game of tag as this pine marten chases a squirrel around a tree trunk but it's deadly serious. A hunter in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, managed to film the squirrel ...

Conservationists hope a boost in red squirrel numbers in areas of Scotland which have high pine marten numbers could also be repeated in Ceredigion. There were fears their reintroduction at Tywi ...

Artificial pine marten dens are being installed in forests in central and eastern Scotland in a bid to help protect the Scottish red squirrel population. Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS ...