{"id":480099,"date":"2026-03-17T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480099\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:57:08","slug":"hopes-for-breeding-kent-bison-herd-in-new-uk-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480099\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes for breeding Kent bison herd in new UK location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five bison from a Kent conservation project have arrived in Cumbria with hopes they will establish a new breeding herd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The animals from the Blean Bison Project previously roamed within West Blean and Thornden Woods just outside Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their move is part of a wider effort to reintroduce bison to the UK landscape, with  Wildwood Trust and Kent Wildlife Trust describing them as acting like ecosystem engineers, naturally reshaping and restoring woodland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Whitfield, director general at Wildwood Trust, said: &#8220;It means a huge amount to us that we can now bring our first-hand experience to new bison journeys starting in other parts of the UK.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five bison from a Kent conservation project have arrived in Cumbria with hopes they will establish a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-480099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480099","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=480099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}