{"id":738667,"date":"2026-08-15T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738667\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:56:09","slug":"wildlife-struggling-in-record-breaking-heat-charities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738667\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife struggling in record-breaking heat, charities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildlife charities across the South have said this summer&#8217;s heatwaves have had an &#8220;unprecedented impact&#8221; on wild animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week, the Met Office said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/articles\/cn8n9pg54m1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 was on course to be the UK&#8217;s hottest summer since records began<\/a> almost 200 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildlife rescue charities have reported an increase in calls, compared with seasonal averages, due to the record-breaking weather, with a wide variety of species requiring support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anne Brummer, who manages Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue on the Berkshire Surrey border, said the impact to one species could often affect entire ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There can be serious knock-on effects &#8211; all the trees are changing, we&#8217;ve got fruits early, and they should be winter food for lots of the birds,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The knock-on effect on migratory birds, who won&#8217;t have food around, is huge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildlife charities across the South have said this summer&#8217;s heatwaves have had an &#8220;unprecedented impact&#8221; on wild animals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-738667","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\/738667","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=738667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}