{"id":638224,"date":"2026-06-14T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:30:08","slug":"race-against-time-to-rescue-native-crayfish-from-derbyshire-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638224\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Race against time&#8217; to rescue native crayfish from Derbyshire brook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Native crayfish discovered living in a brook in Derbyshire face a &#8220;race against time&#8221; to be saved from an invading species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When a population of the under-threat white-clawed crayfish &#8211; the UK&#8217;s only native crayfish &#8211; was discovered in the west of the county, a rescue mission was launched to move the aquatic animals to a safe location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If left, the white-claws faced being outcompeted and infected by the arrival of invasive American signal crayfish and the crayfish plague they carry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 80 have been rescued so far &#8211; with the Sea Life Centre in Birmingham agreeing to quarantine batches of the crayfish before they were taken to a secret &#8220;ark&#8221; site in Staffordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kath Stapley, living rivers officer at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, said: &#8220;This site used to be a great stronghold for our native white-clawed crayfish, but it is unfortunately now colonised by signal crayfish too, and they are currently living side by side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, this won&#8217;t be for long, as the signals will wipe the white-claws out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Native crayfish discovered living in a brook in Derbyshire face a &#8220;race against time&#8221; to be saved from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-638224","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\/638224","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=638224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}