{"id":531041,"date":"2026-04-14T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531041\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:02:08","slug":"uk-puffin-population-down-25-since-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531041\/","title":{"rendered":"UK puffin population down 25% since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK populations of puffins have fallen by 25% since 2000 despite continued attempts to protect them, the RSPB said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World Puffin Day, on 14 April, coincides with the time of year when puffins and other seabirds return to Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire, home to the UK&#8217;s largest mainland seabird colony. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dave O&#8217;Hara, reserve manager at Bempton Cliffs, said the main issue was the availability of sandeels in the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sandeels may be small, but they sit at the very heart of the North Sea food web. Without them, seabirds like Puffins and Kittiwakes simply cannot raise their chicks successfully,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK populations of puffins have fallen by 25% since 2000 despite continued attempts to protect them, the RSPB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-531041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531041","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=531041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}