{"id":404037,"date":"2026-02-02T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404037\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:43:07","slug":"tarras-valley-nature-reserve-searched-for-uks-smallest-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404037\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarras Valley Nature Reserve searched for UK&#8217;s smallest mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now the reserve plans to take part in the volunteer-led national harvest mouse survey run by the Mammal Society in the hope of officially confirming the presence of the &#8220;wonderful little creature&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It will be so amazing if we do have a nationally-scarce species like this on the reserve, discoveries like this make our community land even more special as a haven for people and wildlife,&#8221; Jenny said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The harvest mouse surveys will be held every Wednesday in February between 10:00 and 12:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harvest mice used to live all over the UK, but now there are fewer of them because farming practices have changed, which has led to their natural homes disappearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, wildlife television presenter Chris Packham praised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2p757m4nno\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two teenagers who had been trying to increase their numbers by breeding them at home.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now the reserve plans to take part in the volunteer-led national harvest mouse survey run by the Mammal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-404037","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\/404037","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=404037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}