{"id":288809,"date":"2025-11-29T00:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288809\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:25:06","slug":"yorkshire-dales-adders-examined-for-national-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288809\/","title":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Dales adders examined for national study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Harmar said the genetic testing would indicate whether adders were &#8220;mixing across sites or slipping into in-breeding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work is funded by the Natural England Species Recovery Programme, with Natural England staff delivering fieldwork locally alongside the Nidderdale National Landscape team, volunteers and staff from Yorkshire Water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A NNL spokesperson said DNA samples collected from adders would help scientists &#8220;understand population health and connectivity&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The whole genome sequencing technique reads the complete genetic code of each snake, revealing whether populations are mixing well or becoming isolated,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Will Askew of Natural England said: &#8220;Comparing an upland landscape like Nidderdale with other upland, heathland and forest sites in other regions will help us understand how varying levels of connectivity are affecting adder populations and inform what we do to maintain or restore it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Askew said all sampling would follow &#8220;strict welfare protocols&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Adders are gently captured, a tiny number of scales are taken for DNA, and the animal is released on site immediately afterwards.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Harmar said the genetic testing would indicate whether adders were &#8220;mixing across sites or slipping into in-breeding&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-288809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288809","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=288809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}