UKWOT currently has 20 outdoor enclosures, a cub hospital, two cub isolation rooms and five indoor cub rooms at its current site, which it does not have to pay and rent for.<\/p>\n
The charity, which can care for 40 cubs at once, takes them in from across the country, often after cubs’ mothers were killed in road crashes. <\/p>\n
Staff said they needed to rebuild all of the existing facilities at the new site to be able to continue looking after the cubs.<\/p>\n
Mr Webb said he was “shocked” when he was told the landowner needed the site back.<\/p>\n
He said: “I’m not angry, I am disappointed. I’m extremely disappointed because we always thought this was going to be our home and centre for however long we needed it.”<\/p>\n
Mr Webb said there would not be enough time to dismantle the centre and they urgently needed to rebuild it so the otters had somewhere to be cared for.<\/p>\n
He said the only option was to have most of the site demolished and “cut our losses, which is probably in excess of \u00a340,000”.<\/p>\n
He added: “It’s sad for us, it’s sad for the volunteers, it’s sad for the charity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UKWOT currently has 20 outdoor enclosures, a cub hospital, two cub isolation rooms and five indoor cub rooms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-174653","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\/174653","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=174653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}