{"id":224493,"date":"2025-10-25T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224493\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:25:04","slug":"new-population-of-rare-hazel-dormice-found-in-lindfield-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224493\/","title":{"rendered":"New population of rare hazel dormice found in Lindfield, Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The volunteers were trained by the Lost Woods of the Low Weald and Downs project, a partnership that aims to restore some of Sussex&#8217;s ancient woodland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its senior community development worker, Michael Blencowe, said: &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t believe they found them, it was remarkable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we started training local groups, I thought the chance of finding any was very, very low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now, we can work with ecologists to protect the dormice at this site and encourage this population&#8217;s recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The volunteers were trained by the Lost Woods of the Low Weald and Downs project, a partnership that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-224493","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\/224493","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=224493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}