{"id":832221,"date":"2026-11-12T11:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/832221\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:50:26","slug":"mwt-keen-to-learn-why-this-year-has-been-the-worst-for-seal-pup-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/832221\/","title":{"rendered":"MWT keen to learn why this year has been the worst for seal pup deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 11 November 2026 at 07:26\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/353111-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Pixabay<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            More than 100 babies recorded at Calf of Man but death rate has been high\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Manx Wildlife Trust hopes it will be able to find out why this year has been one of the worst for seal pup deaths on the Calf of Man.<\/p>\n<p>The charity recorded more than 100 babies there in 2026, but found there were more stillbirths, and deaths of young pups, than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Two wardens will remain on the Calf for the next couple of weeks as part of the annual programme to monitor seal numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Lara Howe from the MWT is keen to understand what&#8217;s happening:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 11 November 2026 at 07:26 Picture credit: Pixabay More than 100 babies recorded at Calf of Man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[96,758,755,756,757,128,50,759,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-832221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832221","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=832221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}