{"id":682966,"date":"2026-07-09T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682966\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:27:10","slug":"rescued-turtle-crush-to-fly-to-azores-for-release-into-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682966\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued turtle Crush to fly to Azores for release into the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rare turtle that was flown to the UK after being rescued in Jersey has been given the all-clear to be released back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crush, the loggerhead turtle, was found apparently lifeless on a beach on 19 January following Storm Goretti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Malnourished and suffering from hypothermia, the turtle was flown to Southampton before being transferred to Weymouth Sea Life centre, where she has been cared for alongside other rescued turtles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following her recovery, Crush is now back in quarantine as she prepares for the second flight of her life, 1,500 miles (2,500km) to the Azores, where she will be released in warmer waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare turtle that was flown to the UK after being rescued in Jersey has been given the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-682966","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\/682966","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=682966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}