{"id":271065,"date":"2026-02-06T18:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271065\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:37:06","slug":"cornish-charity-demands-action-to-protect-dolphins-and-porpoises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271065\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornish charity demands action to protect dolphins and porpoises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said similar stranding levels were being reported across Europe, raising concerns about population impacts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cornwall Wildlife Trust is calling on government and regulators to introduce the long-overdue management measures needed to better protect dolphins and porpoises and is urging concerned public to raise the issue with their MPs,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fishermen in Mevagissey have taken their own steps to tackle the issue, including reducing the time nets are in the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick West, chairman of Mevagissey Fisherman&#8217;s Association, said: &#8220;We are fully committed to excluding the likelihood of bycatches completely.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust said similar stranding levels were being reported across Europe, raising concerns about population impacts. &#8220;Cornwall Wildlife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-271065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}