{"id":78667,"date":"2026-06-25T05:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/stonham-aspal-red-squirrels-mark-fabulous-conservation-effort\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:23:37","slug":"stonham-aspal-red-squirrels-mark-fabulous-conservation-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/stonham-aspal-red-squirrels-mark-fabulous-conservation-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonham Aspal red squirrels mark &#8216;fabulous conservation effort&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalengland.blog.gov.uk\/2026\/04\/14\/england-red-squirrel-recovery-strategy\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Natural England<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>, causes for the decline include the introduction of grey squirrels from the USA and Canada from 1876, spreading the squirrelpox virus, which is fatal to the red squirrels only.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group said habitat loss and weak enforcement of existing protections were adding to the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said the government was protecting endangered red squirrels by tackling the threat of non-native grey squirrels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Do you have a story suggestion for Suffolk? Contact us below.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly0xg8ezyzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Natural England, external, causes for the decline include the introduction of grey squirrels from the USA and Canada from 1876, spreading the squirrelpox virus, which is fatal to the red squirrels only. The group said habitat loss and weak enforcement of existing protections were adding to the problem. A spokesperson for the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[21015,2478,10867,10182,1335,6018,8618,21014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78667"}],"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=78667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78669,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78667\/revisions\/78669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}