{"id":296611,"date":"2025-12-03T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296611\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:26:09","slug":"beaver-spotted-at-pensthorpe-nature-reserve-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296611\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver spotted at Pensthorpe nature reserve for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Because the beaver is nocturnal, sightings are extremely rare and the reserve said it was not promoting it as a visitor attraction but rather celebrating what its discovery meant for the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In other parts of the UK, beavers have been reintroduced into the wild after the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj3nn4rlxz5o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gave its approval earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wetlands are some of the most threatened habitats in the UK,&#8221; Mr Spowage said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To have a beaver recorded here is a reminder of what&#8217;s possible when you restore nature at scale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a moment of hope, not just for Pensthorpe but for wildlife across Norfolk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Because the beaver is nocturnal, sightings are extremely rare and the reserve said it was not promoting it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-296611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296611","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=296611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}