{"id":592048,"date":"2026-05-19T07:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592048\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:39:09","slug":"boxes-to-track-for-signs-of-the-endangered-water-vole-in-shropshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592048\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxes to track for signs of the endangered water vole in Shropshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plan was to build eight boxes &#8211; four in Cudwell Meadow, Church Stretton, and four on the Long Mynd in south Shropshire, the group said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once I have showed they are productive and they are a good effective means of getting mammal data, we can then look for more grants to try and raise a bit more money,&#8221; Edmunds said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Traditionally, it would be quite quite hard work [to get the data] as we would have to go out with groups of people looking for the field signs like their poo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s quite difficult to find a little tiny poo that&#8217;s the size of a tic-tac hidden in really thick vegetation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the &#8220;long-term aim over the next five years&#8221; is to work out where water voles are in the county, and work on protecting their habitats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The plan was to build eight boxes &#8211; four in Cudwell Meadow, Church Stretton, and four on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592048","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\/592048","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=592048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}