{"id":451604,"date":"2026-03-01T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451604\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:30:12","slug":"otter-sightings-draw-crowds-to-bradfords-riverbanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451604\/","title":{"rendered":"Otter sightings draw crowds to Bradford&#8217;s riverbanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Of the 13 different species of otter around the world only one is found in Europe \u2013 the Eurasian Otter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These nocturnal mammals have become a flagship species for conservation after rapid declines in the 1950s saw them restricted to just Wales, Scotland, the West country, and parts of Northern England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The ban of harmful pesticides, the cleaning up of the waterways, and legal protection has since helped them expand across most of mainland Britain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They also appear to be expanding back into our city centres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Otters are fully protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) and it is illegal to disturb them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are also a priority species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework, according to the Mammal Society charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said: &#8220;Of the 13 different species of otter around the world only one is found in Europe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-451604","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\/451604","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=451604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}