{"id":566872,"date":"2026-05-05T05:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566872\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:28:15","slug":"advice-on-how-to-tackle-invasive-species-on-our-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566872\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice on how to tackle invasive species on our rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Wye and Usk Foundation\u2019s Louis Macdonald &#8211; Ames made a video about tackling invasive species on our rivers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The video featured Japanese Knotweed, Himalayan Balsam, and Giant Hogweed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He explained where and when to tackle the different species, what methods to use, the all important regulations that protect the aquatic environment, and also some of successes he\u2019s had.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He was especially proud of his Giant Hogweed \u2018trophy kill\u2019 (pictured) and said even though it can commonly be confused with our native harmless version, he\u2019d rather you contacted him and it proved to be a false alarm than to miss a Giant Hogweed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wye and Usk Foundation\u2019s Louis Macdonald &#8211; Ames made a video about tackling invasive species on our rivers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566872","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\/566872","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=566872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}