{"id":144973,"date":"2025-09-18T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144973\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:45:07","slug":"shark-surveying-helped-improve-my-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144973\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shark surveying helped improve my mental health&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cases are rehydrated, categorised and counted &#8211; which helps scientists better understand the marine species. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mike McDonnell, who runs the group, said getting into nature had helped members make valuable connections and gain in confidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got people that maybe had quite severe anxiety, maybe hadn&#8217;t left the house for a couple of years, especially coming off the back of the pandemic, forming friendships,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire Wildlife Trust&#8217;s The Bay Group recently won a national award for its work and was recognised at the Marsh Volunteer Awards for Marine Conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cases are rehydrated, categorised and counted &#8211; which helps scientists better understand the marine species. Mike McDonnell,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-144973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}