{"id":779782,"date":"2026-09-23T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779782\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:24:09","slug":"invasive-demon-shrimp-discovered-in-wiltshire-waterway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779782\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive demon shrimp discovered in Wiltshire waterway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An invasive species of shrimp has been discovered in a protected waterway, raising concerns for native species and the wider ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The demon shrimp, larger than the native equivalent and with a distinctive stripy back, has been discovered in the Holy Brook, a tributary of the River Kennet which runs through Wiltshire and Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity Action for the River Kennet (ARK) is urging those who encounter the species, which can outcompete native species, to report it to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity&#8217;s education and outreach manager Anna Forbes said it was also imperative that river-users follow the government&#8217;s Check, Clean, Dry guidance to stop the demon shrimp spreading further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An invasive species of shrimp has been discovered in a protected waterway, raising concerns for native species and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-779782","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\/779782","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=779782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}