{"id":307873,"date":"2026-02-20T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307873\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:52:19","slug":"midlands-site-captures-wildlife-for-european-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307873\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlands Site Captures Wildlife For European Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 18 February 2026 15:49\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5fede4d846d1e.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Slieve Blooms&#8217; is part of a European project.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A midlands site is being included as part of a European initiative aimed at recording and monitoring wildlife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Slieve Blooms&#8217; is one of the destinations selected as part of the Snapshot Europe project, to track wildlife across the continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 175 remote cameras have been deployed across multiple locations, with more than half a million images captured.<\/p>\n<p>15-20 photos are being taken a day in a section of the mountain range in Laois, capturing mostly fallow deer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr Adam Smith from the UCD Laboratory of Wildlife Ecology and Behaviour says the pictures are producing unexpected results:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 18 February 2026 15:49 The Slieve Blooms&#8217; is part of a European project. A midlands site is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,82,59,263],"class_list":["post-307873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","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-science","tag-westmeath","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307873","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=307873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}