Seated Red Squirrel Pendant (copper with silver nut)

Hand crafted from copper with a sterling silver nut detail.  18" rose gold trace chain included.

Ltd. edition.

As prolific sequesters of seed heads and acorns, Red Squirrels play a crucial role in the regeneration of woodlands.

Their key threat in the UK is famously the grey squirrel, which carries the squirrelpox virus and, as larger specimens, can out-compete reds for food and homes.

The diminishing number and health of our woodlands - especially pine forests, the reds' primary habitat - is also a risk.

Their numbers have declined from 3.5million  to only 120,000 since greys were introduced to Britain by Victorian enthusiasts as as an ornamental species to their parklands

120,000 sounds a lot - but with their health at severe risk and habitats fragmenting, plus the ever present threat of natural predators any more pressure could see these beautiful animals become functionally extinct.