{"id":634665,"date":"2026-10-18T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634665\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T21:36:08","slug":"fears-for-bats-in-gwynedds-bluebell-woods-if-glamping-pods-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634665\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears for bats in Gwynedd&#8217;s Bluebell Woods if glamping pods approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is an offence to kill, injure, take or disturb a bat, or to destroy, damage, obstruct or otherwise interfere with a bat roost, breeding site or resting place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several species of bat were identified on the proposed site, including the common and soprano pipistrelle, as well as the myotis bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were observed entering the woodland from the north of the site and along the road corridors in the area, as well as &#8220;congregating&#8221; in the open parkland in the south-west corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mitigation strategy recommendations included &#8220;maintaining the woodland as a suitable flight corridor and foraging area&#8221;, to preserve part of the woodland as a &#8220;dark area for bats&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Without mitigation, the impact would be assessed &#8220;as major&#8221; at a national level, primarily due to the effect of lighting on bat access through the woodland, the survey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Further ecological mitigation proposed included use of bat boxes, a lighting plan with &#8220;properly positioned and shielded lighting minimising light spill&#8221;, standard trees and 20 smaller trees and hedging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is an offence to kill, injure, take or disturb a bat, or to destroy, damage, obstruct or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-634665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}