{"id":423339,"date":"2026-02-13T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423339\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:16:09","slug":"rise-in-otter-deaths-on-somerset-roads-a-concern-says-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423339\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in otter deaths on Somerset roads a &#8216;concern&#8217; says charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jo Pearse, from the Somerset Otters Group agreed and said the winter &#8220;was a terrible time for otters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The rain swells the rivers and makes strong currents, forcing the otter sometimes onto the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Dusk, when otters are active, coincides with rush hour, so we have more road deaths and of course this year is particularly bad, due to the high rainfall, effectively culling a significant percentage of Somerset&#8217;s population.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On what could make it safer for otters, Gibbs said more road signs near to their habitats may help, as well as more awareness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gibbs said anyone who spots a dead otter on the road can report it to the otter group or alert the Secret World charity directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jo Pearse, from the Somerset Otters Group agreed and said the winter &#8220;was a terrible time for otters&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-423339","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\/423339","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=423339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}