{"id":716808,"date":"2026-07-29T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:49:08","slug":"glen-affric-sees-first-wild-born-beavers-in-400-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716808\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Affric sees first wild-born beavers in 400 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glen Affric, near Cannich, is a large area of woodland, lochs, hills and mountains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trees for Life said the Glen Affric kits were likely to have been born in May or June, before first emerging from their lodge over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity&#8217;s beaver management officer, Tobias Leask, said: &#8220;These beaver kits symbolise a wildlife success story four centuries in the making, and how nature can recover when we give it a chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Seeing them for the first time is something I&#8217;ll never forget. It was one of those rare moments when you realise you&#8217;re witnessing history.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Affric, near Cannich, is a large area of woodland, lochs, hills and mountains. Trees for Life said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-716808","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\/716808","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=716808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}