{"id":159900,"date":"2025-09-25T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159900\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:00:09","slug":"penguin-keeper-swaps-the-deep-in-hull-for-the-humboldts-of-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159900\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguin-keeper swaps The Deep in Hull for the Humboldts of Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his day job, Mr Wilkinson looks after a colony of gentoo penguins at The Deep. In the wild, gentoos live primarily around Antarctica and islands such as the Falklands and South Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Humboldt penguins live further to the north, with Punta San Juan being part of the Peruvian Guano Islands, Isles and Capes National Reserve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of a conservation programme, volunteers have been carrying out research and monitoring work to help protect wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Wilkinson said he had been tracking penguin routes between land and sea, as well as assessing the impacts of the harvesting of guano \u2013 an accumulation of dried bird faeces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What struck me most during my time at Punta San Juan was how forward-thinking this project is and how passionate the team behind it are,&#8221; Mr Wilkinson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the right strategies, we don&#8217;t have to choose between agriculture and wildlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his day job, Mr Wilkinson looks after a colony of gentoo penguins at The Deep. In the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-159900","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\/159900","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=159900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}