{"id":543305,"date":"2026-04-21T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:44:08","slug":"gloucestershire-getting-beaver-ready-for-potential-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543305\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire getting &#8216;beaver ready&#8217; for potential release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said the next stage follows its feasibility study, which identified the two locations and found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgvl9j5n7mo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">91% of the surveyed public<\/a> were in favour of beavers returning to Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to being hunted to extinction about 400 years ago, beavers were widespread across Britain for more than two million years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Amy Fitzmaurice, species recovery officer for Forestry England, said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-gloucestershire-44942382\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beavers in enclosures in the Forest of Dean<\/a> were &#8220;making a real difference&#8221; by restoring wetlands, creating habitat, and slowing the flow of water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Across the country, beavers are starting to return to the wild too, but that kind of change takes time and careful planning,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By working with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and other partners, we&#8217;ve been able to look closely at what beavers could mean for the Severn catchment, the opportunities they bring, as well as the challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust said the next stage follows its feasibility study, which identified the two locations and found 91%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-543305","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\/543305","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=543305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}