{"id":551332,"date":"2026-04-26T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:16:08","slug":"wildlife-arriving-at-new-great-fen-wetland-in-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551332\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife arriving at new Great Fen wetland in Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lorna Parker, Great Fen project manager, said: &#8220;While it was amazing to see the transformation of this land from arable fields to wetland, we were very grateful to see the last digger roll off so that nature can truly take over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The rainfall has helped fill the new mere and channels, and wherever there is water, there is life.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said muddy edges around the waterways were ideal for insects and molluscs, which &#8220;will provide a feast&#8221; for wading birds like lapwings, redshank and snipe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parker said the site should be open to the public in the summer, enabling visitors to &#8220;experience the land returning to nature for the first time in more than 100 years&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorna Parker, Great Fen project manager, said: &#8220;While it was amazing to see the transformation of this land&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-551332","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\/551332","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=551332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}