{"id":616610,"date":"2026-06-02T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616610\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:03:09","slug":"water-voles-brought-back-to-river-wey-in-farnham-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616610\/","title":{"rendered":"Water voles brought back to River Wey in Farnham after 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Water voles are being reintroduced to the River Wey in Farnham after a 20-year absence from the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 300 of the animals have been released into the river in the town centre as part of a wider project to help the species recover, after it became Britain&#8217;s fastest declining mammal because of habitat loss and predation, the National Trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The release in Surrey on Monday was led by the National Trust and Environment Agency, alongside local groups and volunteers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The species, immortalised as &#8220;Ratty&#8221; in The Wind in the Willows, has been locally extinct for two decades said David Elliott, National Trust lead ranger for South Downs West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Water voles are being reintroduced to the River Wey in Farnham after a 20-year absence from the area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-616610","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\/616610","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=616610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}