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Established hedge that will be good for the birds, lots of nesting, lots of food for them, and hopefully, i mean, we got red squirrel around here, we can help the red squirrels. i think it would be really nice. the national trust _ i think it would be really nice. the national trust secured the funding for this scheme, which will see trees planted mainly on farmland in the lake district, an area where farmers have faced criticism from some for changing the natural face of the uplands. some for changing the natural face of the uplands-— of the uplands. what you can see here is the _ of the up...

—— to do, and what we realised when we read the original play was that structure is absolutely watertight. it is a gold—plated structure and we really didn't change. we were given licence to change whatever we wanted but we realised that this is a gift, we will keep all of this because it all still works, all the comic beats are there and that was the real revelation for us. wildlife experts in scotland are hopeful that progress is being made, in efforts to save the native red squirrel from extinction. alexandra mackenzie has that story. the native red squirrel. not a common sight in the...

Of three forests. red squirrels are thought to be better able to eat the seed cones than their rivals the grey squirrel. but a study in northern ireland has found that these non—native conifer forests could actually be detrimental to the red squirrel populations. the result say it is due to the hungry time martin, a school predator which is less alternative food to eat in a tent forest than a much more diverse native woodland. so tent forest than a much more diverse native woodland.— native woodland. so you have lots of re and native woodland. so you have lots of prey and refuges _ native ...

Fatal for red squirrels. alexandra mackenzie has that story. the native red squirrel. not a common sight in the uk, but now limited to areas like here in barhill wood in dumfries & galloway. how many red squirrels would you have in this wood? in november last year we had over 30, which is an exceptional amount. you know, there's not many places in scotland where you'd find that level. so what makes this the ideal habitat for the red squirrel? principally it's the age of the treesm that they are now producing cones regularly and that enables food to be available at different times of the year. ...

New technology, you've got to look to improve. you can't sit still and think, "we're doing the best we can." there's always improvements to be made, so we have to look at technology. so we're looking at fibre communications, improving ourfleet to bring in electric vehicles, drone technology and how that can assist in searches, and speed up finding people that are in difficulty. so really, we've just got to be open to change and embrace it and look to improve at any point that we can. to mark the organisation's milestone birthday, 200 throw lines are being cast into the seas around the four nat...