{"id":532296,"date":"2026-04-15T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:03:10","slug":"accidentally-imported-raccoon-caught-in-pembroke-the-royal-gazette-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532296\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidentally imported raccoon caught in Pembroke – The Royal Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Created: Apr 15, 2026 07:56 AM (Updated: Apr 15, 2026 08:15 AM)<\/p>\n

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Zoonotic threat: staff from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources tracked down a raccoon that escaped from a shipping container after it was opened in the Addendum Lane area in Pembroke (Photograph supplied)<\/p>\n

A raccoon that escaped from a shipping container that had recently arrived at the Hamilton Commercial Docks was safely trapped on Monday by Department of Environment and Natural Resources staff.<\/p>\n

The animal was discovered when the container arrived at Addendum Lane in Pembroke.<\/p>\n

Animal wardens and the government veterinarian responded, locating the animal beneath a dumpster.<\/p>\n

Raccoons, which present an environmental hazard to Bermuda, have arrived through shipping containers a number of times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They are not native to the island and thus pose \u201ca serious biosecurity concern\u201d as carriers of \u201ca range of diseases and parasites that pose a risk to people, pets, livestock and wildlife,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese include serious zoonotic threats such as rabies and raccoon roundworm, as well as other infectious diseases and parasites that are not present in Bermuda.\u201d<\/p>\n

The department said the animal would be humanely put down.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Importers, shipping agents and the public are advised to remain vigilant when opening containers, and report unusual animal sightings to the DENR on 236-4201<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Created: Apr 15, 2026 07:56 AM (Updated: Apr 15, 2026 08:15 AM) Zoonotic threat: staff from the Department…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[183879,2851,134162,6911,90,8865,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-532296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-diseases","tag-animals","tag-environmental-issue","tag-invasive-species","tag-science","tag-spotlight","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532296","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=532296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}