{"id":447134,"date":"2026-02-26T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447134\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:36:09","slug":"more-beavers-released-in-highland-glen-in-wildlife-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447134\/","title":{"rendered":"More beavers released in Highland glen in \u2018wildlife success story\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), which manages the 17,604-hectare NNR, has been working in partnership with Trees for Life on the initiative in Glen Affric since 2022, supported by the Beaver Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Alan McDonnell, Trees for Life\u2019s head of nature restoration, said: \u201cThe return of beavers to Glen Affric is a wildlife success story four centuries in the making \u2013 a project with strong local community volunteer involvement, offering hope for tackling the nature and climate emergencies, and a better future for biodiversity and people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The project has included three phases of extensive consultations with local communities and land managers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Experts said that beavers create wetlands that benefit other wildlife, purify water and reduce flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">While the animals can sometimes create localised problems, the Glen Affric project partners said they have put measures in place to address these quickly should they emerge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The Scottish Government announced in 2016 that beavers would be allowed to remain in Scotland, and in 2019, they were recognised as a protected species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), which manages the 17,604-hectare NNR, has been working in partnership with Trees for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-447134","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\/447134","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=447134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}