The 33,000-acre Dundonnell estate was bought by the English lyricist
Sir Tim Rice in 1998. In 2004, his wife, Lady Jane Rice, contacted the conservationist
Roy Dennis about the possibility of re-estabishing
red squirrels in the estate's woodlands. A feasibility study undertaken by Dennis in 2005 concluded that the woodland provided a suitable habitat for squirrels. A translocation project was approved by
Scottish Natural Heritage in 2007 and a programme of releases was taken forward in 2009 by Jane Rice, the estate's keeper, Alasdair Macdonald, and the Highland Red Squirrel Group, using squirrels trapped at locations in
Badenoch,
Strathspey,
Moray,
Nairn and
Inverness. ==See also==