{"id":605588,"date":"2025-12-01T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605588\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:20:21","slug":"no-conservation-advantage-to-introducing-red-squirrels-on-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605588\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No conservation advantage&#8217; to introducing red squirrels on Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 1 December 2025 06:34\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/249952-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Pixabay<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Manx Wildlife Trust warns the species could have a detrimental impact on the Island&#8217;s ecosystem\n        <\/p>\n<p>The chief executive of the Manx Wildlife Trust believes there would be no conservation advantage to introducing red squirrels to the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, there has been speculation that the species could thrive if introduced to the Island due to the lack of foxes here.<\/p>\n<p>But, Graham Makepeace-Warne says their numbers are strong worldwide and they&#8217;re not endangered.<\/p>\n<p>He told Manx Radio the risks would outweigh the benefits:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 1 December 2025 06:34 Picture credit: Pixabay Manx Wildlife Trust warns the species could have a detrimental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[77,9458,7910,28157,42452,269,12,6226,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-605588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fun","10":"tag-isle-of-man","11":"tag-manx","12":"tag-manx-news","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-presenters","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115645227189261909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}