{"id":281481,"date":"2025-11-24T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:40:07","slug":"the-species-at-risk-of-extinction-in-wales-named-in-first-of-its-kind-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281481\/","title":{"rendered":"The species at risk of extinction in Wales named in first of its kind report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of species at risk of extinction in Wales have been revealed in a new study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The &#8220;first of its kind in the UK&#8221; report identified the country&#8217;s rarest species, including the high brown fritillary butterfly and Snowden leaf beetle, based on how geographically restricted they are, said <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalresources.wales\/?lang=en\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Wales, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three thousand species were found to now exist in five places or fewer, making them highly vulnerable to habitat loss, climate change and sudden catastrophic incidents like storms or wildfires, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh government body, tasked with conservation and protecting the environment, hopes the findings help it focus resources on areas at highest risk of losing species forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of species at risk of extinction in Wales have been revealed in a new study. The &#8220;first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-281481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281481","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=281481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}