{"id":512164,"date":"2026-04-04T07:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:51:07","slug":"bison-herd-restoring-blean-woods-for-wildlife-ranger-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512164\/","title":{"rendered":"Bison herd restoring Blean Woods for wildlife, ranger says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The animals&#8217; natural behaviour of grazing, felling trees, eating bark and taking dust baths opens the canopy, allows woodland regeneration and creates new spaces for other wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildlife monitoring and research will show, over time, what effect the bison are having.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Hannah Mackins, bison and conservation grazing ranger, said they were already starting to see a difference in the part of the wood they have been in until now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Walking through there, we have a lot more light on the woodland floor, we have species growing through that wouldn&#8217;t have had before, because it was so dense with trees, bracken and brambles,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are having a great impact already.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The animals&#8217; natural behaviour of grazing, felling trees, eating bark and taking dust baths opens the canopy, allows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-512164","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\/512164","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=512164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}