{"id":439577,"date":"2026-02-22T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439577\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:12:07","slug":"recently-released-beavers-seen-by-hidden-cameras-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439577\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently released beavers seen by hidden cameras in the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Studland Bay Nature reserve say they may be expecting baby beavers (kits) to be arriving soon after they saw the pair mating on one of their hidden trail camera&#8217;s, they describe this\u00a0as rare to witness in nature.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This time period marks the beavers&#8217; first breeding season following their release last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The animals were captured on camera as part of a monitoring program that relies on volunteers to track the health and wellbeing of the beavers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As part of a broader effort to reverse declines in nature, these beavers were released into the wild in 2025 under license from the government that was the first of its kind.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/news\/25859043.drone-footage-shows-mass-impact-ongoing-persistent-flooding\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drone footage shows mass impact of ongoing and persistent flooding<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Beaver stock photo (Image: Photo by Daniil Komov, Pexels)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Studland Nature Reserve says that when they were released the animals joined a beaver family that was first seen at the lake in early 2024, though they said it is unclear whether that group arrived naturally or through illegal release.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They also said beaver activity has been shown to create habitats that support biodiversity, benefiting fish, amphibians, mammals, water-loving plants and insects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Studland Bay Nature reserve say they may be expecting baby beavers (kits) to be arriving soon after they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-439577","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\/439577","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=439577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}