{"id":695339,"date":"2026-07-16T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:15:10","slug":"new-manx-nature-reserve-declared-to-coincide-with-kings-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695339\/","title":{"rendered":"New Manx nature reserve declared to coincide with King&#8217;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head of conservation and land at Manx Wildlife Trust, David Bellamy, said the reserve was &#8220;one of the very best sites in the whole island to experience and enjoy Manx nature at its very best&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the new designation would provide the greatest level of protection available under Manx law and was a fitting way to mark the King&#8217;s visit on Tuesday, given his longstanding interest in nature conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reserve covers 7.16 hectares (17.69 acres), with habitats including sand dunes, grassland, reedbeds and foreshore. It is also home to rare plants, including the pyramidal orchid, and supports beach-nesting birds such as ringed plovers and oystercatchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head of conservation and land at Manx Wildlife Trust, David Bellamy, said the reserve was &#8220;one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-695339","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\/695339","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=695339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}