{"id":2982,"date":"2025-08-25T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/2025\/08\/beavers-how-they-benefit-the-uk-countryside\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:30:13","slug":"beavers-how-they-benefit-the-uk-countryside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/2025\/08\/beavers-how-they-benefit-the-uk-countryside\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavers: how they benefit the UK countryside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this film by award-winning film maker Henry Kirkwood, we meet nature enthusiast and lone-kayaker Rupert Kirkwood to hear why we should welcome beavers' return to the UK and what we can do to assist them. <\/p>\n<p>As a keystone species, beavers play a disproportionately large role in maintaining the structure and function of an ecosystem. Rupert talks about the reasons for their historical decline, how to spot signs that a beaver might be present, their mannerisms, and how their dam-building activity creates the perfect environment for a huge number of different animals. <\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Rupert's adventures in nature please see:<br \/>\nwebsite: https:\/\/thelonekayaker.wordpress.com\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thelonekayaker\/?hl=en<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this film by award-winning film maker Henry Kirkwood, we meet nature enthusiast and lone-kayaker Rupert Kirkwood to hear why we should welcome beavers&#8217; return to the UK and what we can do to assist them. As a keystone species, beavers play a disproportionately large role in maintaining the structure and function of an ecosystem. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}