{"id":526586,"date":"2026-04-12T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:04:09","slug":"hopes-more-pine-martens-will-be-born-in-south-west-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526586\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes more pine martens will be born in south-west England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservationists say pine martens are “doing well” after being being reintroduced to parts of south-west England.<\/p>\n

Dozens of the mammals, which are related to weasels, have been released into secret locations across Dartmoor and Exmoor since autumn 2024 as part of the Devon Wildlife Trust Two Moors Pine Marten project.<\/p>\n

In July, it was confirmed the animals – which had disappeared from the region more than 100 years ago after being hunted and trapped to extinction – had successfully bred<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Project lead Tracey Hamston said the births were the “news we were waiting for” and were hopeful more young pine martens, called kits, would be spotted soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservationists say pine martens are “doing well” after being being reintroduced to parts of south-west England. Dozens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-526586","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\/526586","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=526586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}