\n Holly, a muntjac, was rescued on Monday by a member of the public.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The fawn was taken to Wildlives Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Frating Road, Thorrington.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n A Wildlives spokesperson said: \u201cShe was rescued by a kind man who found her collapsed in the pouring rain in the open on a path along Clacton seafront. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe was literally new-born with her umbilical cord still bloody.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Fawn – The little fawn was found in the pouring rain (Image: Wildlives Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSadly, the council had cut back all the bushes and undergrowth in the area, leaving no cover and nowhere to hide.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The wildlife centre is nursing the tiny fawn back to strength, and will not be able to release it back into the wild until it is big and strong enough.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The Wildlives spokesperson said: \u201cIn 2019, wildlife centres had their licences to release muntjac back into the wild revoked. It is now illegal to release muntjac. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey can be kept captive under licence. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Muntjac – Muntjacs are not allowed to be released back into the wild (Image: Wildlives Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWildlives is fortunate to have supporters with a magnificent stately home where the residents are deer enthusiasts and help us with our deer. They hold full licences to keep captive muntjac. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe grounds consist of thousands of acres. We have taken multiple deer there to be released in one of their secure paddocks, hundreds of acres in size.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOnce ready, she will be transferred there under licence.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Muntjac deer are common across England, and are also known as \u2018barking deer\u2019 due to their dog-like calls.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n It is the smallest deer species in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holly, a muntjac, was rescued on Monday by a member of the public.\u00a0 The fawn was taken to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-308852","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\/308852","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=308852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}