{"id":604109,"date":"2026-04-14T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:04:09","slug":"accidentally-imported-raccoon-caught-in-pembroke-the-royal-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604109\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidentally imported raccoon caught in Pembroke – The Royal Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Created: Apr 14, 2026 01:02 PM (Updated: Apr 14, 2026 01:03 PM)<\/p>\n

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Staff from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources track down a raccoon that escaped from a shipping container after it was opened in the Addendum Lane area in Pembroke (Photograph supplied)<\/p>\n

A raccoon that escaped from a shipping container that had recently arrived at the Hamilton Commercial Docks was safely trapped yesterday by Department of Environment and Natural Resources staff.<\/p>\n

The animal was discovered when the container arrived at Addendum Lane in Pembroke.<\/p>\n

Animal wardens and the government veterinarian responded, locating the animal beneath a dumpster.<\/p>\n

Raccoons, which present an environmental hazard to Bermuda, have arrived through shipping containers a number of times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They are not native to the island and thus pose \u201ca serious biosecurity concern\u201d as carriers of \u201ca range of diseases and parasites that pose a risk to people, pets, livestock and wildlife,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese include serious zoonotic threats such as rabies and raccoon roundworm, as well as other infectious diseases and parasites that are not present in Bermuda.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department said the animal would be humanely put down.<\/p>\n

Importers, shipping agents and the public were advised to remain vigilant when opening containers, and report unusual animal sightings to the DENR on 236-4201.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Created: Apr 14, 2026 01:02 PM (Updated: Apr 14, 2026 01:03 PM) Staff from the Department of Environment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[44323,2837,49,48,106468,4940,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-604109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal-diseases","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-environmental-issue","13":"tag-invasive-species","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}