{"id":90099,"date":"2025-08-24T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90099\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:01:10","slug":"when-nature-tourists-go-wild-he-had-smuggled-a-penguin-back-to-the-ship-in-his-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90099\/","title":{"rendered":"When nature tourists go wild: \u2018He had smuggled a penguin back to the ship in his backpack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFrom puffins on Irish islands to penguins in Antarctica, more wildlife experiences than ever are within reach \u2013 but at what cost to the animals themselves?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"On the Great Saltee. Photo: Nicola Brady\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e4221d36-d745-4b11-9aa2-9a7aeba1b39c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">On the Great Saltee. Photo: Nicola Brady<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I was boarding the boat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/life\/travel\/staycations\/visit-wexfords-saltee-islands-where-puffins-beat-the-pandemic-for-one-wild-moment\/39373699.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Saltee Islands<\/a> when I saw them \u2013 a group of people lugging a giant boombox down the dock, the kind that blares music at an unnecessarily thunderous volume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It would be offensive in a park or on the beach, but we were going to see the island\u2019s puffins, a vulnerable species that\u2019s protected in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From puffins on Irish islands to penguins in Antarctica, more wildlife experiences than ever are within reach \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[12770,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-90099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-latest-news-ticker","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90099","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=90099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}