{"id":237698,"date":"2025-11-01T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237698\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:23:07","slug":"pennine-volunteers-sought-for-white-clawed-crayfish-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237698\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennine volunteers sought for white-clawed crayfish tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volunteers are being asked to help test water for the presence of water voles, mink and critically endangered white-clawed crayfish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Eden Rivers Trust said it was looking to find &#8220;safe havens&#8221;, where crayfish in particular &#8220;might still thrive, free from invasive species&#8221;, in the North Pennines fellsides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tests involve sending samples containing blood, poo, fur or skin cells to a laboratory to be analysed, with the aim of identifying all the species in a stretch of water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said the Eden catchment in Cumbria was &#8220;one of its last strongholds for white-clawed crayfish in England, but populations were rapidly declining due to water pollution and the invasive American signal crayfish&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers are being asked to help test water for the presence of water voles, mink and critically endangered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-237698","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\/237698","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=237698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}