{"id":786646,"date":"2026-09-29T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786646\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:56:11","slug":"pine-marten-kit-spotted-at-longleat-safari-park-in-wiltshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786646\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine marten kit spotted at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rare pine marten kit has been captured on camera in an area where there is no formal re-introduction programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Longleat Estate in Wiltshire revealed in February that two of the mammals had been spotted together, bringing hope of a family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The safari park then made changes to support the animls, including installing den boxes and changing its woodland management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s extremely exciting that all that work has resulted in kits, said Longleat&#8217;s head of conservation and research, Dr Tom Lewis. &#8220;We now know that they are here to stay and we look forward to seeing our population expand further in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The elusive and cat-sized native mammal from the weasel family was once common across the UK, but habitat loss and hunting had pushed them to the brink of extinction by the beginning of the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare pine marten kit has been captured on camera in an area where there is no formal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-786646","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\/786646","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=786646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}