{"id":560364,"date":"2023-01-23T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T06:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=560364"},"modified":"2023-02-02T05:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:25:26","slug":"plan-to-save-red-squirrels-includes-culling-rival-greys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/plan-to-save-red-squirrels-includes-culling-rival-greys","title":{"rendered":"Plan to save red squirrels includes culling rival greys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An action plan backed by the government to try to save England&#8217;s red squirrels from dying out includes curbing numbers of rival greys. Over the past 150 years, populations of much-loved reds have fallen so sharply that the species is classed as nationally endangered. Volunteers, conservation organisations and government agencies are planning to join forces to protect and strengthen red squirrel populations, which are protected by law, and to expand their habitats. Rival grey squirrels are the greatest threat to the species&#8217; survival in England. Greys, which were introduced from North America from 1876, are larger and more aggressive. They outcompete reds for food and habitat, and carry squirrelpox virus that is almost always fatal to reds. The population of reds in the UK has dropped from around 3.5 million to between 120,000 and 160,000, according to the Woodland Trust. In England, numbers are thought to be as low as 15,000. The Wildlife Trusts say the species could be at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An action plan backed by the government to try to save England&#8217;s red squirrels from dying out includes curbing numbers of rival greys.Over the past 150 years, populations of much-loved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}