{"id":419648,"date":"2026-02-11T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419648\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:30:10","slug":"beavers-released-into-wild-for-first-time-on-somerset-national-trust-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419648\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavers released into wild for first time on Somerset National Trust land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to make sure there&#8217;s really clear understanding in place about what we do should things go wrong: a dam in the wrong place, a bunch of trees sawn down; I don&#8217;t want to see them eating their way through what they call a temperate rainforest,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milton added he would like to see &#8220;a broader policy&#8221; instead of a &#8220;piecemeal approach&#8221; to reintroducing native species. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Trust said it had been working closely with farmers and speaking to residents and neighbours ahead of the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;d like to make sure there&#8217;s really clear understanding in place about what we do should things go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-419648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419648","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=419648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}