{"id":622296,"date":"2026-06-05T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622296\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:24:09","slug":"bison-herd-roams-cumbrian-estate-in-habitat-restoration-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622296\/","title":{"rendered":"Bison herd roams Cumbrian estate in habitat restoration scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Trust said the animals act like ecosystem engineers, naturally reshaping and restoring woodland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Through grazing, felling trees, eating bark and taking dust baths, bison promote woodland regeneration and create new spaces for other wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Hadaway, from Kent Wildlife Trust, said herds created &#8220;habitat complexity through their natural behaviour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Toby Mounsey-Heysham, from Castletown Estate which owns the land, added the project was about &#8220;allowing natural processes to do the work&#8221; and &#8220;creating a living landscape&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Trust said the animals act like ecosystem engineers, naturally reshaping and restoring woodland.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-622296","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\/622296","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=622296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}