OREANDA-NEWS Red Book flying squirrels constantly inhabit and breed on the territory of the Troitsk and Novomoskovsky administrative districts (TiNAO), Azamat Kunafin, head of the biodiversity monitoring department of the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection of the capital, told the Moscow news agency.

He added that the common flying squirrel was first listed in the Red Book of Moscow, and the species was assigned the third category of rarity (vulnerable in the capital). Kunafin explained that the inclusion of this species in the Red Book of Moscow is due to the annexation of the territories of New Moscow to the capital.

Currently, experts are still unable to assess the changes in the number of flying squirrels, as they are listed in the Red Book of Moscow for the first time. Information about them will be obtained based on the results of the surveys during the audit period, that is, until the date of the subsequent publication of the Red Book.

On Monday, February 24, photos of the animal appeared in Telegram channels, taken near the village of Yartsevo in the TiNAO.

Earlier in the capital, rescuers freed a duck frozen to the ice of a reservoir in the west of the city.