{"id":783244,"date":"2026-09-26T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783244\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:56:09","slug":"gloucestershire-estate-to-build-uks-largest-beaver-enclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783244\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire estate to &#8216;build UK&#8217;s largest beaver enclosure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The owners of an estate in Gloucestershire have plans to build what they said would be the largest beaver enclosure in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elmore Court, a Grade II listed mansion by the River Severn near Stroud, is planning a reconstruction of its land to include a new beaver enclosure as well as the introduction of wild ponies and pigs as part of a rewilding project started in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The next chapter will see the construction of the UK&#8217;s largest beaver enclosure,&#8221; a spokesperson for the estate said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Custodian of the estate Anselm Guise said &#8220;protecting and restoring nature&#8221; could not &#8220;sit apart from making the estate work economically&#8221;. He said he was &#8220;constantly working to find this balance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guise said the project would take two years to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of an estate in Gloucestershire have plans to build what they said would be the largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-783244","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\/783244","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=783244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}