{"id":435466,"date":"2026-02-20T04:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435466\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:24:09","slug":"love-is-in-the-air-for-beaver-pair-in-studland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435466\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is in the air for beaver pair in Studland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beavers are continuing to enjoy valentines day as they spread the love in Studland in a rare sight, captured by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/visit\/dorset\/studland-bay\/re-introducing-beavers-to-studland?fbclid=IwY2xjawQDz-NleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETA5RjRjMTFyYW1iNDljRVJqc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHt4W5Kenp828l7liTON-UPx4VHDVlKVP8ir-lTZnsl7JmNRe98vI7N9eVzjk_aem_nc2nv94liqfVIE4tLlAn9w\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Trust&#8217;s, external<\/a> trail cam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The footage delighted staff, showing the pair settling well into their new habitat after their March 2025 release \u2014 and hopefully preparing to raise kits &#8211; baby beavers &#8211; soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beavers, hunted to extinction in Britain around 400 years ago, are a native species. Restoring them is a key part of the National Trust&#8217;s work to revive nature and rebuild lost ecosystems, which beavers are top builders on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This latest sighting offers real hope that these ecosystem engineers will continue shaping the landscape for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beavers are continuing to enjoy valentines day as they spread the love in Studland in a rare sight,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-435466","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\/435466","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=435466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}