{"id":250893,"date":"2025-11-08T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250893\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:24:07","slug":"devon-frankenstein-trees-offer-safe-haven-for-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250893\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon &#8216;Frankenstein trees&#8217; offer safe haven for wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hamer said: &#8220;Deadwood creates habitat for wildlife, and standing deadwood like this is even more special, because it is drier than most deadwood and has become rare in British woodlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hope that when the tree saplings we&#8217;ve planted at Yonder Oak are fully grown trees, there will already be a healthy ecosystem around them to help the woodland thrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said the work had been made possible with funding from Screwfix, which contributed \u00a3100,000 to Kingsettle Wood over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Compton, Screwfix commercial director said, &#8220;We&#8217;re delighted that our funding for ancient woodland restoration has supported the installation of the &#8216;Frankenstein Trees&#8217; &#8211; creating sustainable, natural solutions to a biodiversity challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Hamer said: &#8220;Deadwood creates habitat for wildlife, and standing deadwood like this is even more special, because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-250893","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\/250893","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=250893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}