{"id":469939,"date":"2026-06-01T01:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469939\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:06:10","slug":"wildlife-filled-childhoods-have-been-lost-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469939\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife-filled childhoods have been lost | Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Amy-Jane Beer describes witnessing \u201ca devastating demonstration of what we\u2019ve lost\u201d in Britain during her visit to Biebrza marshes, Poland, (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/may\/26\/country-diary-a-jaw-dropping-bounty-of-wildlife-and-a-reminder-of-what-britain-has-lost\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Country diary, 26 May<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">I was born in 1949 and remember a childhood full of moths flying around every streetlight, the dawn chorus waking us even in cities, sitting in fields full of wildflowers, watching hedgehogs, foxes, rabbits, hares, butterflies and weasels, walking through woods with beetles, ants and red squirrels all around us, listening to thrushes, blackbirds, blackcaps, woodpeckers and even nightingales singing in all directions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">I feel privileged to have had a childhood full of such things, and yet unutterably sad that this has gone, never to return. In order to truly recalibrate, as Beer suggests, we have to first face the totality of the heartbreaking loss.<br \/>Anne Geraghty<br \/>Dunoon, Argyll and Bute<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"> Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/may\/31\/mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city\/town\/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tone\/letters\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy-Jane Beer describes witnessing \u201ca devastating demonstration of what we\u2019ve lost\u201d in Britain during her visit to Biebrza&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-469939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469939","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=469939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}