{"id":744884,"date":"2026-08-21T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744884\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:28:09","slug":"friends-love-of-west-midlands-nature-shared-in-youtube-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744884\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends&#8217; love of West Midlands nature shared in YouTube films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People that work in retail and businesses and things that don&#8217;t really connect with nature in that way, that they can actually, in their break times, go outside for five or 10 minutes and realise what nature is all about,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are so now disconnected because we work in these business areas and industrialised areas that we don&#8217;t realise, actually, that you need to go on that 10 minute walk just to reconnect back to nature and forget the stresses of modern life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Geography school instructor Eddowes, who had a below knee amputation in 2024, said he also wanted to highlight the importance of how accessible nature was for people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being someone with a disability, a lot of the time people presume if you have a disability, you can&#8217;t get out into nature, you can&#8217;t access it, when it actual fact, there&#8217;s so many places you can go,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The main thing I&#8217;d love from this series filming with Adam is just inspire people and we just want to make it where you can watch it, have a laugh and go and explore what&#8217;s out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;People that work in retail and businesses and things that don&#8217;t really connect with nature in that way,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-744884","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\/744884","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=744884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}