Overview
Red Squirrels of the Highlands is a Forestry Commission Scotland
project that aims to help protect our nationally endangered Red
Squirrel population. By tracking the whereabouts of Red Squirrels
the project will help Forestry make effective plans for protecting
their future and keeping the highlands free of grey squirrels.
The website is the perfect solution to enable volunteer
surveyors, and members of the public, to capture and record
sightings to the website (database) and plot them on an Ordnance
survey map. The map is building over time to plot every recorded
sighting (since 2007) in even the remotest areas of the
Highlands.
User generated content is at the heart of the design, with the
site enabling users to comment on the weekly blog, written by the
red squirrel conservation officers, use the forum to discuss all
squirrelly issues, chat, explore, read, comment and generally get
excited about red squirrels. The gallery also publishes the best of
the squirrel pics submitted via the sightings database.
The team at Screenmedia have really enjoyed working on this
particular project. So much so, that we've bought our own Red and
Grey Squirrel costumes - watch this space!