and water voles. the report, put together by the charity, the mammal society, calls for urgent action. here s our science correspondent, victoria gill. familiar characters becoming increasingly rare sights. while the uk is increasingly rare sights. while the ukisa increasingly rare sights. while the uk is a natural home for dozens of mammals, including red squirrels, dormice and hedgehogs, many of those species are in danger of disappearing. this first red list of threatened species put together by the conservation charity the mammal society, has shown that a quarter of all the uk s native mammals are under threat of extension. so what we have done is a really comprehensive review. all the evidence we have available on things like how big the populations are, how isolated those populations are, they have where we have drawn this together to come up with this list of 11 of our a7 native species, being classified as threatened imminently.
and what this is clearly saying is we need to be acting right now. we don t, we can t carry on with the current trajectory. different animals face different threats. the now critically endangered scottish wildcat population has not recovered from decades of persecution. for the red squirrel, disease and competition from the introduced grey squirrels have driven it decline. but something conservation scientists agree on is that we need to leave more wild space for these species to recover. there are pockets of good habitat, like this red squirrel reserve in formby, but that s exactly what this is. this is an isolated pocket of good, natural habitat for red squirrels. and what conservationists say we need is for that to be a connected network of wild space across the landscape. here s my little foxy loxy. during lockdown, many people shared pictures and video on social media of animal encounters in quite urban settings.
and what this is clearly saying is we need to be acting right now. we don t, we can t carry on with the current trajectory. different animals face different threats. the now critically endangered scottish wildcat population has not recovered from decades of persecution. for the red squirrel, disease and competition from the introduced grey squirrels have driven it decline. but something conservation scientists agree on is that we need to leave more wild space for these species to recover. there are pockets of good habitat, like this red squirrel reserve in formby, but that s exactly what this is. this is an isolated pocket of good, natural habitat for red squirrels. and what conservationists say we need is for that to be a connected network of wild space across the landscape. here s my little foxy loxy. during lockdown, many people shared pictures and video on social media of animal encounters
the scene of lynn henthorn s bizarre death, when the phone rang, a sheriff s detective on the line. roxanne burns felt a great sense of relief. finally sort of a chance to to make it right. to make it right, yep. reporter: she hadn t forgotten that night back in 1995. it wasn t just the horrible way lynn died, her own jeep crushing her, it was the husband, harold. roxanne remembered he just wasn t acting right. you ve seen a lot of these? oh, yeah. oh, yeah. and he was just so calm about the whole thing and didn t ask any questions about how she was or anything like that. he wasn t screaming at me, grabbing at me, saying, you have to do something. you know reporter: desperate. desperate. yeah. reporter: instead, as roxanne remembers it, harold seemed to
detectives screaming, get on the ground, get on the ground. your heart rate kind of jumps up. okay, he s there. this is muller just after he was arrested. he did not put up a fight. in the house the detectives found a room with cardboard on the windows blocking out the light. they searched that stolen car and found a few more items of interest. one was a bebe gun. one was a super soaker that was painted black with a flashlight taped to it. if you were in the dark and all you saw was the shape, absolutely. there were also swim goggles with tape covering the lenses. a long blonde hair stuck to the tape. when they traced the stolen car that vehicle comes back stolen out of vallejo. so the dublin cops called vallejo pd and started comparing notes. we re showing them pictures