It wouldn't be a biodiversity statement if I didn't mention the lovely, little fluffy red squirrels, for which I am the species champion. As it happens, 10 to 16 October is Red Squirrel Awareness Week, and I just want to say 'thank you' to the Welsh Government for the fact that you have listened to the concerns of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, the Clocaenog Red Squirrels Trust, and others who raised those concerns about the tree-felling licence processes. I can see that amendments are going to be made now to the law through the Agriculture (Wales) Bill, and that's a great thing. So, I want to put on record my thanks to the Welsh Government for making those legislative changes when eventually we have an Act before us.

But one cause of concern that I do have in your statement today was the talk of the connectivity of different biodiversity areas, and it's not because I don't understand the risks of islandisation, if you like, for species, but it is due to the fact that we have islandisation that we still have a red squirrel population in Wales. So, there are sometimes some benefits from islandisation that we need to be aware of. Can you assure me, Minister, that when it comes to the red squirrel as a species, which is endangered here in Wales, that you will be cognisant of the risks of connectivity that connects them to their worst enemy, the grey?