{"id":21956,"date":"2025-07-25T02:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21956\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T02:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:04:19","slug":"cornish-nature-reserve-welcomes-first-beaver-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21956\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornish nature reserve welcomes first beaver babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A nature reserve in Cornwall has welcomed its first beaver babies, or kits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT) confirmed the presence of the kits at Helman Tor, near Bodmin, using footage from camera traps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The kits are the offspring of parents that appeared from a &#8220;beaver bombing&#8221;, an <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clygl4dv4rno\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">illegal release<\/a> which took place in early 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Cheryl Marriott, from CWT, said: &#8220;While we don&#8217;t condone the way beavers arrived at Helman Tor, it&#8217;s hard not to celebrate the birth of kits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The births come soon after <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd97gd23ydyo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">beaver kits were also born at  Lost Gardens of Heligan estate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The trust said beavers, were a &#8220;vital ally in the face of climate change&#8221; because of their dam building, which creates drought-resistant wetlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">CWT said the births were &#8220;a hopeful sign for the future of wild beavers in Cornwall&#8221; which highlighted &#8220;the impact the animals are already having at Helman Tor nature reserve&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The trust said it would &#8220;continue to monitor the beavers as part of its Wild Beaver Project&#8221;, which aims to reintroduce beavers around the Par and Fowey rivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nature reserve in Cornwall has welcomed its first beaver babies, or kits. Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT) confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-21956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}