{"id":576038,"date":"2026-05-10T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576038\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:37:11","slug":"attenborough-at-100-the-region-where-sir-david-learned-to-love-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576038\/","title":{"rendered":"Attenborough at 100: The region where Sir David &#8216;learned to love wildlife&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To mark Sir David&#8217;s 100th birthday, a tree was planted outside College House on Friday as part of a day of celebrations across the East Midlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">University of Leicester president and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Nishan Canagarajah, described the naturalist as &#8220;a tireless advocate for the planet and a cherished part of our university&#8217;s history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cara Hewitt, a ranger at Bradgate Park, told the BBC Sir David&#8217;s influence is still felt among her colleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We come here and we want to care for the same land that he once had a spark for,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We consider ourselves a small park, and then to know that we still hold a place in his heart, it&#8217;s amazing to think we are like a treasure to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another important &#8211; but far lesser known &#8211; spot for Sir David was Tilton Railway Cutting, situated between Leicester and Oakham in Rutland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To mark Sir David&#8217;s 100th birthday, a tree was planted outside College House on Friday as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-576038","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\/576038","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=576038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}