In partnership with the University of Bristol, Huawei Technologies and international NGO Rainforest Connection (RFCx), the Mammal Society project will deploy innovative technologies for the first time in the UK to help protect red squirrels by generating unprecedented insights into the lives and activities of their declining populations across the UK.

The project will see advanced bio-acoustic, cloud and artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies deployed to help experts assess and monitor squirrel populations. It will use custom-built 'Guardian' and 'Audiomoth' monitoring devices and Huawei software to analyse the natural noise of the environment – the first time Huawei’s world-leading technology has been applied in this way in the UK.

One of the UK’s most-loved native species, the endangered red squirrel has lost 60 per cent of its range in England and Wales over the last 13 years and it is estimated that there are fewer than 290,000...