{"id":39926,"date":"2025-09-24T03:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/39926\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:33:12","slug":"project-launched-to-eradicate-american-mink-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/39926\/","title":{"rendered":"Project launched to eradicate American mink locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large-scale culling programme targeting invasive American mink has been launched in the Midlands to protect vulnerable ground-nesting birds.<\/p>\n<p>The Midlands Mink Eradication Programme, a three-and-a-half-year pilot, will focus on Lough Ree.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by the NPWS, the scheme is a joint effort between the Breeding Waders EIP and the National Association of Regional Game Councils.<\/p>\n<p>American mink has been recently added to the EU&#8217;s list of invasive alien species and is linked to declines in red grouse, curlew, hen harrier and other threatened birds.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Murphy is the senior project manager with Breeding Waders EIP:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large-scale culling programme targeting invasive American mink has been launched in the Midlands to protect vulnerable ground-nesting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-39926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39926","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=39926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}