{"id":6675,"date":"2022-11-16T01:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T01:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/meet-the-dog-who-seeks-out-stoats\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T01:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T01:02:43","slug":"meet-the-dog-who-seeks-out-stoats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/meet-the-dog-who-seeks-out-stoats\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the dog who seeks out stoats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Stoats are not native to Orkney but since they were first spotted there in 2010 they have wreaked havoc, eating a third of their bodyweight in rare native birds and voles every single day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Orkney Native Wildlife Project is an ambitious initiative that has been working to remove stoats from the county since 2017, using detection dogs like Thorn to search for signs of stoats which have avoided the traps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">About 3,500 stoats have been caught so far and efforts to bring in new specialist tracker dogs are already under way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It is hoped that more and more areas of Orkney will be declared officially stoat-free until finally every last one of the invasive predators is gone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-63643260?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoats are not native to Orkney but since they were first spotted there in 2010 they have wreaked havoc, eating a third of their bodyweight in rare native birds and voles every single day. The Orkney Native Wildlife Project is an ambitious initiative that has been working to remove stoats from the county since 2017, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[412,195,393,4451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}