{"id":492241,"date":"2026-03-24T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492241\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:15:07","slug":"most-people-only-encounter-badgers-with-roadkill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492241\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Most people only encounter badgers with roadkill&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A charity which has built a wildlife hide said most of its visitors had only encountered badgers through roadkill.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RSPB said interest in badgers living metres from its hide at Wild Haweswater in the Lake District, Cumbria had &#8220;hugely grown&#8221; because visitors get the chance to get close-up to the UK&#8217;s largest land predator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site&#8217;s manager, Annabel Rushton, said its &#8220;dedicated volunteers&#8221; had nurtured the hide, which has increased operating to five nights a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, despite &#8220;beaming smiles&#8221; from people, Rushton said the majority of visitors had only ever seen badgers &#8220;dead at the side of the road&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A charity which has built a wildlife hide said most of its visitors had only encountered badgers through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-492241","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\/492241","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=492241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}