{"id":544511,"date":"2026-04-22T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:20:08","slug":"endangered-crayfish-released-into-yorkshire-dales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544511\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered crayfish released into Yorkshire Dales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than a 180 white-clawed crayfish have been released into the Yorkshire Dales as part of a new conservation project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The freshwater crustaceans, which are the UK&#8217;s only native crayfish species, are endangered due to competition from invasive American signal crayfish and the diseases which they carry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The signal crayfish competes with native white-claws and brings with it a plague that kills our native crayfish,&#8221; said Lucy Atkinson, crayfish project officer at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crayfish were raised at Yorkshire&#8217;s first crayfish hatchery site, which was built at Flamingo Land in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a 180 white-clawed crayfish have been released into the Yorkshire Dales as part of a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-544511","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\/544511","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=544511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}