{"id":334029,"date":"2025-12-24T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334029\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:06:10","slug":"essex-dormice-thriving-after-work-to-improve-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334029\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex dormice &#8216;thriving&#8217; after work to improve habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dormice are found in Africa, Asia and Europe and are known for their long hibernation periods. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volunteers had carried out work at reserves in the north of the county over the past few years to ensure the habitat was suitable for the rodents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the spring of this year, the trust, along with Thames Chase Forest Centre, near the M25, planted the nest boxes in the hope of seeing numbers rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By October, we had counted 15 individual dormice, including juveniles,&#8221; a spokesperson for the trust said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This means they&#8217;re not just there, they&#8217;re breeding and thriving.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dormice are found in Africa, Asia and Europe and are known for their long hibernation periods. Volunteers had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-334029","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\/334029","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=334029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}