{"id":773753,"date":"2026-09-17T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773753\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:48:16","slug":"bridges-open-up-woodland-near-canterbury-to-kents-roaming-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773753\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridges open up woodland near Canterbury to Kent&#8217;s roaming bison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bison are considered to be &#8220;ecosystem engineers&#8221; because their natural behaviour, such as browsing, grazing, felling trees and trampling vegetation, helps to create habitats for other plants and animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heidi Aguirregoicoa, bison and conservation ranger at Kent Wildlife Trust, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s been fascinating to watch the bison gain confidence with the bridges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At first, they were cautious and their first crossing happened under cover of darkness, but they quickly started using them more regularly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers were already seeing their impact on the woodland, she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fresh paths are appearing through dense vegetation, bark is being stripped from trees and their dung is enriching the soil and supporting insect life,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bison are considered to be &#8220;ecosystem engineers&#8221; because their natural behaviour, such as browsing, grazing, felling trees and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-773753","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\/773753","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=773753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}