{"id":19940,"date":"2025-07-24T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19940\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:11:08","slug":"cornish-nature-reserve-welcomes-first-beaver-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19940\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornish nature reserve welcomes first beaver babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A nature reserve in Cornwall has welcomed its first beaver babies, or kits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT) confirmed the presence of the kits at Helman Tor, near Bodmin, using footage from camera traps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The kits are the offspring of parents that appeared from a &#8220;beaver bombing&#8221;, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clygl4dv4rno\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">illegal release<\/a> which took place in early 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheryl Marriott, from CWT, said: &#8220;While we don&#8217;t condone the way beavers arrived at Helman Tor, it&#8217;s hard not to celebrate the birth of kits.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nature reserve in Cornwall has welcomed its first beaver babies, or kits. Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT) confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-19940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940","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=19940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}