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The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) is hosting the Northern Ireland Squirrel Forum on the 24 November 2009. The forum has been inactive for several years but there is renewed enthusiasm to conserve the red squirrel in Ireland.  For further details, please go to: http://www.ni-environment.gov.uk/biodiversity/northern_ireland_squirrel_forum.htm
The advance of the grey squirrel across Northern Ireland has been [...]

The 5th International Colloquium on Arboreal Squirrels will be held between July 31 to August 4, 2009 at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. As per previous colloquia in the US, England and India, this meeting will serve to bring together researchers from around the world that work on all aspects of arboreal squirrels. [...]

A conference about red squirrel conservation, organised by Scottish Natural Heritage, will be held at the Pollock Halls, Edinburgh on Monday, 27th Februiary 2006. Deputy Environment Minister Rhona Brankin will be present and will open the meeting. For further information, see http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2006/01/12090830 .

Proceedings of the 2005 Irish Red Squirrel Conservation Symposium held at the National University of Ireland, Galway are now available on-line. Please go to the Conferences and Meetings Webpage or the Publications Webpage, both under Articles.

Periyar Tiger Reserve, on the banks of Periyar Lake situated in the Western Ghats of Kerala, India
22-29 March 2006
Second Announcement & Call for Abstracts
The Fourth International Colloquium on Tree Squirrels and the First Colloquium on Flying Squirrels are envisioned as being a meeting place for researchers with an active interest in tree and flying squirrels [...]

The Fourth International Colloquium on Tree Squirrels & the first Colloquium on Flying Squirrels will be held in Periyar Tiger Reserve, on the banks of Periyar Lake situated in the Western Ghats of Kerala, India in March 2006. Please go to the Conferences and Meetings page for further details.

This was organised by Dr Colin Lawton and held at the National University of Ireland, Galway in April 2005. It is hoped to post the abstracts and a discussion report from the meeting on Squirrel Web soon.

National University of Ireland, Galway
22nd April 2005
Organised by Dr Colin Lawton
[UPDATE] Proceedings of the Symposium are now available: Lawton, C. (Ed.) (2005). Proceedings of the Irish Red Squirrel Conservation Symposium, 22nd April, 2005. 20pp. National University of Ireland, Galway.

Canolfan Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales
18th September 2004
This will be hosted by the Friends of the Anglesey Red Squirrels on Saturday, 18 September 2004 in Canolfan Beaumaris, Anglesey, 9:30am – 5:00pm. The conference will be an excellent opportunity for everyone with an interest in red squirrels in Wales and beyond to get together and discuss some of [...]

The first European Squirrel Workshop was held in Portovaltravaglia, Italy (1992)
This was followed up by meetings in Bavaria, Germany (1995), Southampton (at the 2nd European Congress of Mammalogy), UK (1995), Grimso, Sweden (1997), and in Dorset, UK – hosted by BP Exploration Operation Co. Ltd. on 2/3 September 1999. The 6th European Workshop was held [...]