A study has found that a revival in the number of pine martens in Ireland,
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has meant there are less grey squirrels
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which is good news for red squirrels.
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Click on this link to read “Population crash in an invasive species following the recovery of a native predator: the case of the American grey squirrel and the European pine marten in Ireland” by Emma Sheehy & Colin Lawton published in ‘Biodiversity and Conservation’.