{"id":357284,"date":"2026-01-07T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357284\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:01:08","slug":"plan-to-reintroduce-beavers-to-erewash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357284\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to reintroduce beavers to Erewash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council in Derbyshire is pursuing plans to reintroduce beavers in a bid to boost biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Erewash Borough Council&#8217;s draft biodiversity strategy could see the Eurasian beaver find a new home in the Erewash Valley. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move follows work by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust to breed a beaver population at Willington Wetlands nature reserve in 2021, which brought the species back to the county for the first time in 800 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully we&#8217;ll be able to look out for beavers around the borough in the future,&#8221; said Becca Everett, the borough council&#8217;s deputy leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council in Derbyshire is pursuing plans to reintroduce beavers in a bid to boost biodiversity. Erewash Borough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-357284","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\/357284","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=357284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}