The Mid Wales Red Squirrel has successfully applied for £15,000 in grant funding from the People’s Trust for Endangered Species. Applied for by the Brecknock Wildlife Trust, one of the project partners the money will be used to continue the project’s vital survey work to find out more about reds in Tywi Forest, continue to raise awareness about the project and to undertake work with schools local to the project area taking students into the forest to find out more about red squirrel conservation.

Over the past 6 years the project has found out a lot more about the distribution and status of the red squirrel in the mid Wales forests but these squirrels are still under threat and their key pine habitat being felled.

New records are still coming in - the most recent was