{"id":159364,"date":"2025-09-25T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159364\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:49:08","slug":"ceredigion-forest-turbine-plans-threaten-red-squirrel-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159364\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceredigion forest turbine plans &#8216;threaten&#8217; red squirrel colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A wildlife charity is opposing plans to build wind turbines in a forest amid fears it  &#8220;would increase the chances of local extinction&#8221; of red squirrels in mid Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Renewable energy firm Galileo Empower wants to build 19 turbines in a forest east of Lampeter, Ceredigion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Wildlife Trust of South &amp; West Wales (WTSWW) said it would also affect the Bryn Arau Duon Forest in Carmarthenshire which offered a &#8220;rare refuge&#8221; for red squirrels, free from grey squirrels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Galileo Empower said its planned 89 acre (36 hectare) site was already a commercial forestry plantation &#8220;where felling and extraction are already routine&#8221; but proposals included safeguarding the red squirrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife charity is opposing plans to build wind turbines in a forest amid fears it &#8220;would increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-159364","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\/159364","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=159364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}