{"id":157,"date":"2025-05-30T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/?p=157"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:51:41","slug":"end-of-wildlife-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/2025\/05\/30\/end-of-wildlife-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"End of wildlife centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernvalley, a tourist attraction, wildlife centre and caf\u00e9 in Rendall, closed on the 18<span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of May 2025 due to a conflict with Orkney Islands Council Planning Department over insulation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The owners said they\u2019re \u201ctired of fighting\u201d with the council. They are getting nowhere and they have had enough, saying closing was \u201cthe only option\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The council have decided that insulation in the roof, that has been there since 2019, is \u201cunsuitable\u201d and will have to be removed. This means that the owners, who hoped to sell the business as a going concern, are unable to do so and they will have to close instead.<\/p>\n<p>Since all the animals in the wildlife centre were rescue animals, they reassured everyone that none of them would be put down because of the closure, and they would all be re-homed.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Katelyn L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernvalley, a tourist attraction, wildlife centre and caf\u00e9 in Rendall, closed on the 18th of May 2025 due to a conflict with Orkney Islands Council Planning Department over insulation. The owners said they\u2019re \u201ctired of fighting\u201d with the council. They are getting nowhere and they have had enough, saying closing was \u201cthe only option\u201d. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/2025\/05\/30\/end-of-wildlife-centre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of wildlife centre<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}