{"id":388702,"date":"2026-01-24T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388702\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:29:07","slug":"bustards-nest-found-in-cranborne-chase-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388702\/","title":{"rendered":"Bustards nest found in Cranborne Chase for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What it shows is the slow, but steady, expansion of the breeding range of the great bustard &#8211; and that the bustards had a good year last year,&#8221; said David Waters from the GBG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bird has been Wiltshire&#8217;s county emblem since Wiltshire Council was established in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to BBC Radio Wiltshire, Waters said the UK population, which is all in Wiltshire, are doing well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The numbers are going up slowly. But in the rest of the world, many of the Great Bustard species are not doing well,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re the only bird in the UK which is globally endangered.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;What it shows is the slow, but steady, expansion of the breeding range of the great bustard &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-388702","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\/388702","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=388702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}