{"id":709371,"date":"2026-07-24T19:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709371\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:37:25","slug":"how-can-you-help-wildlife-in-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709371\/","title":{"rendered":"How can YOU help wildlife in the heat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zoe Quiroz Cullen, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/av\/47722857\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Wildlife Trusts<\/a>, sends a reminder to people with a pond at home or at school, to top it up if you can. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, she told Newsround to make sure &#8220;they have shallow, gently sloping edges so animals can get in out and safely&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wildlife Trusts also encourage people to be messy in their gardens &#8211; good news for some!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Creating shady, cooler areas by letting grass grow long, adding log piles&#8230;allowing some parts of the garden to become wilder can provide vital shelter and sources of food&#8221;, says Zoe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Have you been helping out any wildlife in the heat? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Quiroz Cullen, from The Wildlife Trusts, sends a reminder to people with a pond at home or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-709371","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\/709371","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=709371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}