The Clocaenog Red Squirrel Trust has collaborated with eco-poet Diana Sanders to highlight the challenges facing Clocaenog’s endangered red squirrels through poetry. Eco-poetry blends creative expression with environmental activism, offering a powerful way to engage people with issues such as habitat loss, noise pollution, disease from grey squirrels, and the wider vulnerability of this rare Welsh species. Through these poems, Caro Collingwood (Red Squirrel Ranger) and Diana hope to inspire greater awareness and support for red squirrel conservation.
Each week we’ll be featuring one of the poems written in Diana’s workshop.
The Sky From Above by Marco Giudici
Clocaenog Forest, June 15, 2025
I see you grow
as you stand tall
a nymph
inhabits
the stream
the understory
trembles
we’re outnumbered
you lead the way
looking for reds
all we can find
is what has changed
white noise
black noise
nitrates
phosphates
invasive
vines needles
ripping through
fur
and
skin
there’s
no vertical refuge
no horizontal escape
I’m sorry
for all you’ve got left
the sky from above



