{"id":492594,"date":"2026-03-24T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492594\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:50:10","slug":"kent-wildlife-trust-bids-to-raise-120k-to-support-grazing-herds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492594\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Wildlife Trust bids to raise \u00a3120k to support grazing herds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A charity is urgently trying to raise \u00a3120,000 to support a large-scale conservation grazing project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent Wildlife Trust says it has nearly 900 animals, including longhorn cattle, konik ponies, Hebridean sheep, goats, pigs, and European bison, that are restoring habitats across 52 sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust warns more than 200 species in Kent are now threatened or endangered as natural habitats continue to &#8220;shrink and degrade&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alison Ruyter, wilder grazing lead, said grazers &#8220;help bring life back to landscapes that machinery simply can&#8217;t reach&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A charity is urgently trying to raise \u00a3120,000 to support a large-scale conservation grazing project. Kent Wildlife Trust&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-492594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492594","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=492594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}