{"id":222467,"date":"2025-10-24T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222467\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:57:09","slug":"tiny-2mm-rare-snail-found-at-wiltshire-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222467\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny 2mm rare snail found at Wiltshire nature reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the snails like very wet places in chalk areas &#8211; like those in south Wiltshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the future, the trust wants to set up a captive breeding and release programme where it finds the right habitat for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Stapleton-Goddard said changes in land use, with lots of river valleys being drained in the past, have led to a reduced population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The snails themselves are the base of the food chain. If you&#8217;ve got wetland and fenland supporting these snails then they&#8217;re going to be able support a lot more,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said the snails like very wet places in chalk areas &#8211; like those in south Wiltshire. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-222467","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\/222467","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=222467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}