{"id":167705,"date":"2026-05-27T05:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=167705"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:55:56","slug":"king-charles-iii-visits-the-grey-squirrel-contraceptive-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/king-charles-iii-visits-the-grey-squirrel-contraceptive-project\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III visits the grey squirrel contraceptive project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the very beginning of <strong>King Charles III<\/strong>\u2019s reign, the King has shown a profound respect and concern for the national wildlife. That\u2019s why the King met the conservationist to reduce an ongoing situation with the non-native grey squirrels in Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grey squirrels, introduced from the United States in the 19th century, are considered an <strong>invasive species<\/strong>. Although they are more common than native red squirrels, there exists an alarming fact explaining that larger grey animals carry a virus to which they are immune, but that is <strong>deadly<\/strong> to reds.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The red squirrel is an endangered species in Britain, despite being the country\u2019s only native squirrel breed.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc3f\ufe0f The King, Patron of The Red Squirrel Survival Trust, has long supported efforts to restore the red squirrel population.<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty visited a conservation initiative\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A6GhdZ9j4x\">pic.twitter.com\/A6GhdZ9j4x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyalFamily\/status\/2059280745059733817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 26<strong>, the Monarch of the United Kingdom met scientists and researchers from The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) in Yorkshire<\/strong> in northern England, who are working on a new oral contraceptive project aimed at slowing grey squirrels&#8217; population growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The King, who also serves as<strong> patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust<\/strong>, wants to support the conservation of the national wildlife through this contraception project, which surely will help to maintain the balance in the populations of squirrels in Britain. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the very beginning of King Charles III\u2019s reign, the King has shown a profound respect and concern for the national wildlife. That\u2019s why the King met the conservationist to reduce an ongoing situation with the non-native grey squirrels in Britain. Grey squirrels, introduced from the United States in the 19th century, are considered an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":167706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,1795],"tags":[1881],"class_list":["post-167705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-entertainment","category-royal-family","tag-king-charles-iii"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167711,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167705\/revisions\/167711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}