{"id":113091,"date":"2025-11-03T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/113091\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:45:09","slug":"redundant-bognor-regis-power-poles-get-new-role-helping-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/113091\/","title":{"rendered":"Redundant Bognor Regis power poles get new role helping wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Poles that once carried electricity across West Sussex are being given a new lease of life helping wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They have been repurposed as nesting sites for barn owls and swifts on the Bersted Brooks nature reserve near Bognor Regis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Each pole has been fitted with a nesting box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They had been part of the Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks system, with much of the cabling now underground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Amanda Worne, chairwoman of Arun District Council&#8217;s environment committee, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re proud to support projects that not only improve infrastructure, but also enhance our local environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Repurposing these poles to support birdlife is a brilliant example of how we can work together to protect and promote biodiversity in Arun. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really looking forward to hopefully seeing the boxes being used by birds in the spring.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poles that once carried electricity across West Sussex are being given a new lease of life helping wildlife.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-113091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}