{"id":648,"date":"2008-05-26T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=648"},"modified":"2008-05-26T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T21:57:00","slug":"scottish-beavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/scottish-beavers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/n3wjack\/18891574\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/15\/18891574_c4330626a2_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/n3wjack\/18891574\/\">beaver<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/n3wjack\/\">*n3wjack&#8217;s world in pixels<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I was thoroughly annoyed a couple of years ago when the Labour government in Scotland rejected a proposal to set beavers free in Scotland, just because some landowners thought they would be a hassle.<\/p>\n<p>So I was very pleased when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/may\/26\/endangeredspecies.conservation\">I learned that the proposal has now been given the green light<\/a> by the SNP government.<\/p>\n<p>Beavers were released in the wild in Denmark a few years ago, and it&#8217;s been a big success.  Sure, they build damns and flood fields, but that&#8217;s the whole point &ndash; the resulting wetlands are great for lots of animals, not just the beavers.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beaver Originally uploaded by *n3wjack&#8217;s world in pixels I was thoroughly annoyed a couple of years ago when the Labour government in Scotland rejected a proposal to set beavers free in Scotland, just because some landowners thought they would be a hassle. So I was very pleased when I learned that the proposal has now been given the green light by the SNP government. Beavers were released in the wild in Denmark a few years ago, and it&#8217;s been a big success. Sure, they build damns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}