{"id":254751,"date":"2026-01-20T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254751\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:05:08","slug":"sika-deer-declared-as-invasive-species-in-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254751\/","title":{"rendered":"Sika deer declared as invasive species in the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has declared the sika deer an invasive species.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times<\/a>, sika deer was added to the EU list of union concern last summer, while its addition applying to Ireland was only published in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Sika deer were first introduced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/killarney-national-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Killarney National Park<\/a> in the 1860s;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/almost-400-deer-culled-in-killarney-national-park-in-2025-465751\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">almost 400 deer were culled<\/a> there last year, including over 270 sika deer.<\/p>\n<p>Its inclusion\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/european-union.europa.eu\/index_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> list,\u00a0means countries must eradicate the deer, control their populations or prevent their initial arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union has declared the sika deer an invasive species. According to The Irish Times, sika deer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-254751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254751","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=254751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}