{"id":770106,"date":"2026-09-14T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770106\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T06:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:50:20","slug":"reintroduction-of-butterflies-to-rockingham-forest-set-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770106\/","title":{"rendered":"Reintroduction of butterflies to Rockingham Forest set to expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservationists who have helped reintroduce a butterfly back into England have been awarded \u00a3150,000 to expand the project over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, 46 Chequered Skippers were released into Rockingham Forest close to Corby, Northamptonshire, in May, using a donor population from Belgium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The funding has been given to the Butterfly Conservation charity from Natural England&#8217;s Species Recovery Programme with the hope the species will be reintroduced to Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Jamie Wildman, based in Kettering, and from the charity, said the money would go towards &#8220;self-sufficiency of the reintroduced population, to ensure these beautiful insects can thrive in England once again&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservationists who have helped reintroduce a butterfly back into England have been awarded \u00a3150,000 to expand the project&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770106","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=770106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}