{"id":772509,"date":"2026-09-16T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772509\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:46:10","slug":"adder-project-at-crookham-common-set-back-years-after-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772509\/","title":{"rendered":"Adder project at Crookham Common set back years after wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pioneering project to boost a common&#8217;s adder population has been set back several years after a wildfire last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust has set up a fundraising campaign after Crookham Common in Berkshire was damaged in the blaze that started on 14 August and was tackled overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It destroyed approximately two hectares (4.9 acres) of sensitive scrubland and bracken at the designated site of special scientific interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Firefighters&#8217;] professionalism, speed and dedication ensured the fire was contained and helped to avert a far worse situation,&#8221; said Kate Titford, the trust&#8217;s head of communications. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity&#8217;s land manager Julian Cooper added: &#8220;This project has been set back by several years by the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As climate change makes events like this more likely, we need your help more than ever, across the three counties.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pioneering project to boost a common&#8217;s adder population has been set back several years after a wildfire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-772509","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\/772509","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=772509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}