{"id":275999,"date":"2025-11-21T20:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275999\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:05:03","slug":"labrador-trained-to-find-wildlife-at-northumbrian-water-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275999\/","title":{"rendered":"Labrador trained to find wildlife at Northumbrian Water sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Barrett, who holds a certificate as a Conservation Detection Dog Handler, says Bracken&#8217;s skills have been developed through hands-on experience living in an area which has a healthy hedgehog population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She says Bracken &#8220;genuinely loves what he does&#8221; but equally enjoys being their family pet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His role isn&#8217;t only rewarding but also vital, by helping to detect and protect vulnerable species before any work begins,&#8221; Mrs Barrett said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Outside of his role, he&#8217;s a much loved pet who enjoys his walks, playtime and being part of the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zoe Frogbrook, from Northumbrian Water, said: &#8220;Bracken is detecting the presence of hidden animals such as hedgehogs or nesting birds which we might not always be able to spot and, by doing so, he&#8217;s supporting our efforts to make sure we don&#8217;t impact the biodiversity on our sites.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Barrett, who holds a certificate as a Conservation Detection Dog Handler, says Bracken&#8217;s skills have been developed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-275999","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\/275999","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=275999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}