{"id":120344,"date":"2025-09-07T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120344\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:45:15","slug":"water-vole-habitat-in-gloucestershire-illegally-destroyed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120344\/","title":{"rendered":"Water vole habitat in Gloucestershire &#8216;illegally&#8217; destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two companies who illegally destroyed a habitat for the UK&#8217;s fastest-declining mammal species have agreed to fund an ecological survey to &#8220;make amends&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency (EA) said it had received a report in March that ditch clearance work in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, had destroyed a water vole habitat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The agency said a criminal investigation found there had been &#8220;no ill intent&#8221;, although the companies had been given prior advice about laws protecting wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both companies, who are not named in the EA statement, agreed to fund a two-year water vole survey by ecologists at the Cotswold Lakes Trust charity, alongside a donation to support the charity&#8217;s nature recovery work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two companies who illegally destroyed a habitat for the UK&#8217;s fastest-declining mammal species have agreed to fund an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-120344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}