{"id":495411,"date":"2026-03-26T00:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495411\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:11:12","slug":"invasive-species-threat-leads-to-guernsey-marine-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495411\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive species threat leads to Guernsey marine advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The guide, produced in collaboration with marine users, also encouraged people to report invasive non-native species they see in the water or on the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Julia Henney, the States&#8217; senior natural environment officer, said there were already many invasive marine species in Guernsey, including Japanese wireweed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the guidance aimed to help promote best practice as &#8220;once these species get here, they are almost always impossible to remove&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are hundreds more potentially invasive species on the horizon which could cause significant environmental, social and economic impacts if they were to enter our waters,&#8221; Henney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The guide, produced in collaboration with marine users, also encouraged people to report invasive non-native species they see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-495411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495411","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=495411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}