{"id":798249,"date":"2026-10-10T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798249\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T16:20:08","slug":"lone-male-stoat-captured-on-orkney-island-after-seven-month-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798249\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone male stoat captured on Orkney island after seven-month hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alice Head-Rapson, an ONWP trapper, said: &#8220;This incursion response was a test of our skills, but everybody at the project stepped up to meet the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s still important we guarantee with complete confidence that the stoat we&#8217;ve trapped was the only one, but our achievement here is a big deal and we hope that will help to keep nature safe across all of Orkney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Working with the island community has been a privilege, and we&#8217;re really grateful for all the support the volunteers there have shown for native wildlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rousay is the first of the outer islands where a stoat has been spotted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Though it was not clear how the creature ended up there, the ONWP said that the island was within swimming distance &#8211; 1.8 miles (3km) from the mainland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Monitoring will continue for two years before the island can be declared stoat-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alice Head-Rapson, an ONWP trapper, said: &#8220;This incursion response was a test of our skills, but everybody at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-798249","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\/798249","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=798249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}