{"id":86475,"date":"2025-10-17T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86475\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:08:07","slug":"endangered-white-claw-crayfish-released-into-pond-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86475\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered white claw crayfish released into pond in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A wildlife conservation charity said white-clawed crayfish, which are an endangered species, have been released into a pond in Devon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildwood Devon, a wildlife park based in Ottery St Mary, said there were only two known surviving populations of the crayfish left in the county. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Education and conversation officer Charly Mead said the creatures, which were rescued two years ago, had been moved into a specifically created site at the wildlife park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said 37 of the crayfish had been released into its purpose-built refuge which provided a secure home where the species could &#8220;survive and thrive away&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife conservation charity said white-clawed crayfish, which are an endangered species, have been released into a pond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-86475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86475","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=86475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}