{"id":601549,"date":"2026-05-24T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601549\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:55:08","slug":"river-wye-becomes-first-uk-river-to-gain-charter-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601549\/","title":{"rendered":"River Wye becomes first UK river to gain charter rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wye is 155 miles long and starts in Wales, runs through Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in England, before crossing the border again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hope what we&#8217;ve done here today will travel out into parish halls, communities, village halls, farms and schools&#8221;, said Swinglehurst, who helped to create the charter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hope this raises people&#8217;s awareness that the river has a right to be respected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Imagine if the Severn did it, then the Avon, then the Thames. If every river did this, then surely the constitutional change to consider the rights of nature is at least possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charter was launched by hundreds of supporters who walked from the Hay Festival site to the Warren, a public open space alongside the River Wye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wye is 155 miles long and starts in Wales, runs through Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in England, before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601549","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\/601549","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=601549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}