{"id":150699,"date":"2025-09-21T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150699\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:40:10","slug":"more-seahorses-being-spotted-close-to-the-shore-in-south-west-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150699\/","title":{"rendered":"More seahorses being spotted close to the shore in South West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Garrick-Maidment described the fish as &#8220;an amazing storyteller of what&#8217;s going on in the world&#8221; and urged people to view seahorses as an indicator of the issues humans pose to nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everything that happens to seahorses happens to almost every bit of nature that we&#8217;ve got,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The challenges to seahorses are endless, to be honest. If it&#8217;s not man-made problems, such as habitat loss through anchors, dredging, pollution, people building on the foreshore, it&#8217;s natural problems like flash flooding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Predators of seahorses include other fish, such as bream and pollock, and seagulls have been know to drop them from height to crack them open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The biggest predator of all, as usual, is humans,&#8221; Mr Garrick-Maidment said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Garrick-Maidment described the fish as &#8220;an amazing storyteller of what&#8217;s going on in the world&#8221; and urged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-150699","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\/150699","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=150699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}