{"id":503459,"date":"2026-03-30T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503459\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:07:08","slug":"seahouses-crossing-patrols-saving-more-toads-than-ever-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503459\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahouses crossing patrols saving more toads than ever before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volunteers running crossing patrols for toads said the number saved has risen by a quarter in a year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Seahouses Toads on Roads group looks after the amphibians making their way to their springtime breeding grounds in a pond next to the B1340 road, north of the Northumberland town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patrols have ended for 2026 during which 1,894 toads were helped across the road, up from 1,497 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Founder Claire Watson-Armstrong said: &#8220;What is even more encouraging is how much drivers, cars, buses, delivery vans were all slowing down and helping us to keep the toads safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers running crossing patrols for toads said the number saved has risen by a quarter in a year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-503459","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\/503459","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=503459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}