{"id":667477,"date":"2026-07-01T06:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667477\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:44:08","slug":"ealing-beavers-stop-greenford-station-from-flooding-project-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667477\/","title":{"rendered":"Ealing beavers stop Greenford Station from flooding, project says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Now it takes hours for it to percolate through each dam and it&#8217;s worked. The second winter that they were here, there was no flooding downstream. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Third winter which has just passed, no flooding has occurred in that targeted zone downstream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beavers, nature&#8217;s engineers, were hunted to extinction in Britain centuries ago, prized for their fur, meat and scent glands. They returned to Ealing in 2023, and have been reshaping the landscape ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since their reintroduction to London three years ago, the colony has been prospering. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The kits born last week appear in the evening and local residents in Paradise Fields have been gathering with cameras to film the mother and her babies after dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;Now it takes hours for it to percolate through each dam and it&#8217;s worked. The second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-667477","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\/667477","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=667477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}