Last year it was revealed that banknotes produced by the Bank of England were to get their first major redesign in more than 50 years – and they asked for the public’s help.<\/p>\n
44,000 people had their say on what themes and images they’d like to see on their notes.<\/p>\n
The majority of people picked nature as their preferred theme.<\/p>\n
As a result, the Bank of England announced they would come up with a shortlist of wildlife, from birds to animals, so they could put a vote to the public in summer.<\/p>\n
They have now chosen 18 species from around the UK that could appear on future \u00a35, \u00a310, \u00a320 and \u00a350 notes.<\/p>\n
The animals have been split into three groups:<\/p>\n
Mammals – Bottlenose dolphin, brown hare, European hedgehog, grey seal, pine marten, red fox.<\/p>\n
Birds – Atlantic puffin, barn owl, common kingfisher, Eurasian curlew, great spotted woodpecker, white-tailed eagle.<\/p>\n
Insects, fish and amphibians – Atlantic salmon, basking shark, buff-tailed bumblebee, common frog, emperor dragonfly, marsh fritillary butterfly.<\/p>\n
People can vote for up to six of their favourite creatures before votes close next month.<\/p>\n
However, it will be down to the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, to make the final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year it was revealed that banknotes produced by the Bank of England were to get their first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-620089","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\/620089","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=620089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}