{"id":415,"date":"2021-01-28T14:23:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/?p=415"},"modified":"2021-01-28T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:23:40","slug":"controlling-the-grey-squirrel-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/2021\/01\/28\/controlling-the-grey-squirrel-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling the Grey Squirrel Population"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gsq-1-500.jpg\" alt=\"Grey Squirrel\" class=\"wp-image-416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gsq-1-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gsq-1-500-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Grey Squirrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oral contraceptives are to be given to grey squirrels in the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-55817385\">reports the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan announced by Environment Minister Lord Goldsmith involves luring the squirrels into feeding boxes, and providing hazelnut spread containing the contraceptive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal comes from UK Squirrel Accord, a partnership of conservation and forestry organisations, which says that grey squirels cause damage to woodlands by stripping the bark from younger trees &#8211; especially oak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greys are an invasive species, introduced from North America. About 3 million live in the UK, and they have largely displaced the red squirrel. The new plan could reduce the numbers of grey squirrels by 90%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oral contraceptives are to be given to grey squirrels in the UK, reports the BBC. The plan announced by Environment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorkshirewildlife.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}