{"id":467073,"date":"2026-03-10T03:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:19:07","slug":"volunteers-needed-as-more-whales-and-dolphins-strand-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467073\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers needed as more whales and dolphins strand alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to BDLMR data, in 2018, there were around 22 live standings recorded but by 2025 that number had more than doubled to 46.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2023 and 2024, the number of strandings of cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) peaked in the 60s for both years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The figures represent incidents, some involving multiple animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jarvis said: &#8220;Cornwall for example, is a very busy area with the volume of call-outs, but we also have other areas of the country where maybe we don&#8217;t get many call-outs, but we also have very, very few volunteers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So when something does happen in that area, it&#8217;s still important for us to have enough local resource with volunteers and equipment to respond.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to BDLMR data, in 2018, there were around 22 live standings recorded but by 2025 that number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-467073","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\/467073","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=467073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}