{"id":293746,"date":"2025-12-01T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293746\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:47:08","slug":"no-conservation-advantage-to-introducing-red-squirrels-on-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293746\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No conservation advantage&#8217; to introducing red squirrels on Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 1 December 2025 06:34\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/249952-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Pixabay<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Manx Wildlife Trust warns the species could have a detrimental impact on the Island&#8217;s ecosystem\n        <\/p>\n<p>The chief executive of the Manx Wildlife Trust believes there would be no conservation advantage to introducing red squirrels to the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, there has been speculation that the species could thrive if introduced to the Island due to the lack of foxes here.<\/p>\n<p>But, Graham Makepeace-Warne says their numbers are strong worldwide and they&#8217;re not endangered.<\/p>\n<p>He told Manx Radio the risks would outweigh the benefits:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 1 December 2025 06:34 Picture credit: Pixabay Manx Wildlife Trust warns the species could have a detrimental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[96,758,755,756,757,128,50,759,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-293746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293746","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=293746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}