{"id":711637,"date":"2026-07-26T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711637\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:13:08","slug":"hundreds-of-species-found-at-former-farmland-in-bedfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711637\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of species found at former farmland in Bedfordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of species have been found living on former farmland bought by a charity  following a \u00a31.5m appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjdlrr2zm55o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ownership of Strawberry Hill in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 377-acre (152-hectare) site between Kettering and Bedford has now been found to contain half of Bedfordshire&#8217;s nightingales, as well as 11 bat species and 50 species of moss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chantelle Warriner, reserves officer, said: &#8220;Every visit seems to throw up new species  and the more we can learn, the better we can plan the future management to ensure it stays rich in biodiversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of species have been found living on former farmland bought by a charity following a \u00a31.5m appeal.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-711637","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\/711637","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=711637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}