{"id":78627,"date":"2025-08-19T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78627\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:01:09","slug":"tas-to-be-the-latest-river-in-norfolk-to-be-rewiggled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78627\/","title":{"rendered":"Tas to be the latest river in Norfolk to be &#8216;rewiggled&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Restoration is to be carried out on a river in Norfolk in a bid to help wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Environment Agency plans to re-meander, or &#8220;rewiggle&#8221;, the River Tas in Forncett St Peter by restoring meanders that were disconnected in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">According to the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, the agency hopes the scheme will improve the &#8220;form, ecological value and biodiversity&#8221; of the river, and it said it would not increase the risk of flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Tas runs through south Norfolk and joins the River Yare at Trowse, near Norwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Historically, rivers have been straightened to make them more efficient and flow faster, but it increases the risk of damaging habitats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The rewiggling would see it follow the original channel of the watercourse again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The plans follow similar projects on the River Yare, the River Stiffkey and the River Waveney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restoration is to be carried out on a river in Norfolk in a bid to help wildlife. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-78627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}