{"id":544189,"date":"2026-04-22T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:49:08","slug":"five-beavers-make-new-home-in-paradise-of-bowyers-wood-in-uckfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544189\/","title":{"rendered":"Five beavers make new home in &#8216;paradise&#8217; of Bowyers Wood in Uckfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ecotalk, which manages a 250-acre rewilding project in the wood, released the beavers with the help of charity Green Britain Foundation (GBF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservation officer and beaver lead for the GBF, Grace Garland, described beavers as a &#8220;keystone species&#8221; that had a &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; environmental impact compared with others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;When they back up the water, that&#8217;s creating breeding grounds for fish behind the dams&#8230;[and] taking out the trees is allowing more flora and fauna to come up for nesting birds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The beavers have the ability to restore wetlands, reduce flood risk, improve water quality and boost biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With water levels rising since their introduction, Garland said the semiaquatic mammals had made an &#8220;incredible&#8221; difference in a short space of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ecotalk, which manages a 250-acre rewilding project in the wood, released the beavers with the help of charity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-544189","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\/544189","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=544189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}