{"id":446289,"date":"2026-02-26T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446289\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:04:07","slug":"beavers-released-to-transform-west-glen-river-in-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446289\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavers released to transform West Glen River in Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A family of beavers has been released into a Lincolnshire river to live in what officials claim is England&#8217;s largest beaver enclosure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four animals are expected to help return the West Glen River near Grantham to a more natural course after centuries of being straightened and deepened to drain farmland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family will live in an enclosure measuring about 200 hectares (494 acres) which includes 20,000ft (6,000m) of specialist perimeter fencing and shelters made by community volunteers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claire Barrett from Nattergal, which runs the site, said: &#8220;The beavers will be our nature engineers and create an amazing complex of wetland habitats which bring in other species to enjoy the landscape.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family of beavers has been released into a Lincolnshire river to live in what officials claim is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-446289","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\/446289","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=446289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}