{"id":485650,"date":"2026-03-20T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485650\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:24:07","slug":"wildlife-concern-after-pleasley-pond-accidentally-drained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485650\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife concern after Pleasley pond accidentally drained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martins said she had been alerted to the problem by workers at the nearby mills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I was distraught. The pond was literally bare &#8211; there was no water in it at all, it was just mud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The swans were trying to slide across the mud to get to what little water there was from a small stream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The island in the middle had been totally chopped down, there are like three trees left, all the other vegetation has gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is the nesting area for the swans and it is just empty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The impact would be felt across the local ecosystem, including toads, kingfishers and other waterfowl, Martins warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The wildlife that was there has been disrupted. We probably won&#8217;t have a breeding season now and we may have lost them,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is going to have a massive impact. It is going to take years for the pond and its wildlife to recover&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martins said she had been alerted to the problem by workers at the nearby mills. She added: &#8220;I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-485650","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\/485650","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=485650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}