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From left, Emma Godsell, Sandra Peelo, animal big cat carer and Wightlink Captain Sam Mitchell with some of the rope. OLD rope from Wightlink is set to bring joy to animals at the Isle of Wight Zoo — and will help red squirrels too. Around a half a kilometre of rope has been donated to the zoo at Sandown and the Wight Squirrel Project. The rope had been lying idle at Wightlink’s stores but will be now be used to provide scratching posts and other amusement to big cats and primates at the zoo and by the squirrel project to provide rope ‘walkways’ to help the squirrels cross roads...

Scroll down to share your photos! They are protected on the Island and thrive here, but the native mammal does not fare as well in other parts of the country, where they are threatened by the rise of grey squirrels and other environmental factors. He said: “Without your efforts, we simply could not hope to succeed in the task we have set ourselves. "Generations to come would be denied the pleasure we take for granted in the healthy woods that are now threatened as never before, and of which the red squirrel is both the symbol and, by its presence, the benchmark."