{"id":176847,"date":"2025-12-05T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176847\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:28:08","slug":"lynx-and-wolves-in-ireland-pose-minimal-threat-offaly-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176847\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx and Wolves In Ireland Pose Minimal Threat &#8211; Offaly Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 5 December 2025 16:21\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/693305974572b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            A new study shows only 32% of 10 to 11 year olds want lynx back in Irish habitats.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Children have no reason to be fearful of lynx and wolves were to be reintroduced to the country.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the view of Offaly&#8217;s Biodiversity Officer, as a new study from Queens and Ulster University shows young people are cautious about the idea of encountering one.<\/p>\n<p>Just 32% of 10 to 11 year olds say they want lynx to be brought back to parts of Ireland, with the figure being\u00a030% for wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Whelan says the impact would be minimal:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 5 December 2025 16:21 A new study shows only 32% of 10 to 11 year olds want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-176847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}