{"id":814241,"date":"2026-10-26T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814241\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:26:09","slug":"canvey-wick-to-improve-habitat-for-rare-bumblebee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814241\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvey Wick to improve habitat for rare bumblebee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Work is due to begin this week to create new floral and grassland homes for one of England&#8217;s rarest bumblebees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Canvey Wick Nature Reserve on Canvey Island, Essex, was the first brownfield area to be designated as a site of special scientific interest by Natural England in 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is home to rare invertebrates including the shrill carder bee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says it will clear scrub to create a &#8220;mosaic of flower-rich grassland habitats&#8221; as well as &#8220;varied natural land features&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity was awarded a grant for the three-year project by Natural England&#8217;s species recovery programme, which is funded by the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marc Outten, the nature reserve&#8217;s manager, said being included in the programme was &#8220;incredibly rewarding, giving us a real opportunity to secure the future of one of the UK&#8217;s rarest bumblebees&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Canvey Wick is a 93.2-hectare (230-acre) site managed by the RSPB in partnership with conservation charity Buglife and on behalf of the Land Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work is due to begin this week to create new floral and grassland homes for one of England&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-814241","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\/814241","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=814241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}