{"id":320597,"date":"2025-12-17T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:08:07","slug":"orford-ness-seal-colony-welcomes-300-pups-with-more-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320597\/","title":{"rendered":"Orford Ness seal colony welcomes 300 pups, with more expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 300 seal pups have been born at a colony just a month into the breeding season, the National Trust has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crlkjgzz538o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">228 pups were born<\/a> at Orford Ness in Suffolk, which is home to the county&#8217;s first breeding colony of grey seals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The breeding season began in November and already hundreds have been born with still about a month to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Wilson, the trust&#8217;s countryside manager, said the team believed the entire colony now consisted of more than 1,000 seals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 300 seal pups have been born at a colony just a month into the breeding season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-320597","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\/320597","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=320597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}