{"id":260337,"date":"2025-11-13T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260337\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:19:07","slug":"farne-islands-newborn-grey-seals-counted-in-their-first-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260337\/","title":{"rendered":"Farne Islands&#8217; newborn grey seals counted in their first survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first grey seal pups of the year born at one of England&#8217;s largest colonies will be the first counted in an annual survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Trust, which manages the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast,  carries out the yearly census to monitor the mammals&#8217; numbers and health and to gather data to help direct conservation efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity has been using drones since 2018 to provide more accurate data with minimal disturbance to wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Area ranger Sophia Jackson said &#8220;each pup born here is a testament to the conservation work we do&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first grey seal pups of the year born at one of England&#8217;s largest colonies will be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-260337","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\/260337","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=260337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}