{"id":131815,"date":"2025-09-12T08:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131815\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:17:06","slug":"beaver-wild-releases-in-england-follow-steves-great-escapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131815\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver wild releases in England follow Steve&#8217;s Great Escapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many beaver groups have made no secret of their frustration at not seeing the animals live &#8220;free uncontained lives&#8221;, as one put it, and the Wildlife Trusts have campaigned for many years for a change in policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Duncan Hutt from Northumberland Wildlife Trust said: &#8220;We just need to let them get on with doing what they do best, creating wetlands and improving biodiversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roisin Campbell-Palmer, from the charity Beaver Trust, said enclosures &#8220;can be wonderful demonstration models&#8221; generating &#8220;important science&#8221;, but the charity&#8217;s preference would always be that beavers are released &#8220;in the wild on a larger scale&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In any case, as a result of historical illegal releases beavers are already paddling their way into new areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In time in Britain there will be tens of thousands of beavers,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s happening already, but more wild releases will speed up the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If only Steve could have waited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many beaver groups have made no secret of their frustration at not seeing the animals live &#8220;free uncontained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-131815","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\/131815","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=131815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}