{"id":669516,"date":"2026-07-02T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669516\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:18:08","slug":"permission-sought-for-hebridean-guga-hunt-to-take-place-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669516\/","title":{"rendered":"Permission sought for Hebridean guga hunt to take place this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Permission has been sought for a traditional hunt of young seabirds to take place on an uninhabited Hebridean island later this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For centuries, gannets have been killed for their meat during an annual hunt on Sula Sgeir, a small rocky island 40 miles (64km) north of Ness on Lewis in the Western Isles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Public body NatureScot issues licences for the hunts and is assessing the latest application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation&#8217;s board will be asked to note that this process is under way at a meeting later. It will make a decision on the licence at a future date. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The practice, called a guga hunt and dating back to the 15th Century, usually takes place in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Animal rights campaigners oppose the hunt and say it is no longer needed to provide food for islanders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Permission has been sought for a traditional hunt of young seabirds to take place on an uninhabited Hebridean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-669516","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\/669516","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=669516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}