{"id":295783,"date":"2026-02-17T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295783\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:39:08","slug":"gloucestershire-wildlife-plan-supports-beavers-bats-and-dormice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295783\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire wildlife plan supports beavers, bats and dormice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plan includes having more wetlands and letting rivers return to a more natural state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To help species such as dormice and bats, the council will be looking at improving hedgerows and also introducing more bat bricks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These bricks have small slots in, allowing bats to enter and roost without larger predators being able to get in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The strategy also talks about working with local farmers and landowners to restore floodplain meadows and plant more species which will hold water to minimise flooding impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All local councils will be required to take into account Gloucestershire&#8217;s Local Nature Recovery Strategy when making decisions and planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council launched the strategy at Mitton Manor Primary School in Tewkesbury on Friday, alongside the school&#8217;s Eco Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The plan includes having more wetlands and letting rivers return to a more natural state. To help species&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-295783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295783","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=295783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}