{"id":628856,"date":"2026-06-09T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628856\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:15:08","slug":"about-200-water-voles-released-into-nature-reserve-near-harpenden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628856\/","title":{"rendered":"About 200 water voles released into nature reserve near Harpenden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reintroduction of the water voles took three years to plan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Kirsti Wenn, Mayor of Harpenden, said: &#8220;It has been a real pleasure to watch this conservation project, from its infancy to the release of our new residents, and I can&#8217;t wait to see how the water voles will help the town council continue to improve the environment and local ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Batford Springs Local Nature Reserve is not only a beautiful green space, but it is the home of hugely important habitats, and we are immensely proud of all we have achieved here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reintroduction of the water voles took three years to plan. Councillor Kirsti Wenn, Mayor of Harpenden, said:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-628856","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\/628856","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=628856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}