{"id":3210,"date":"2026-04-07T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3210\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:09:12","slug":"engineers-are-imitating-beavers-to-prevent-flooding-down-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3210\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers are imitating beavers to prevent flooding &#8211; Down to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AdobeStock-261867072.jpeg\"   width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"DOWN TO EARTH\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"a-img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>                DOWN TO EARTH                \u00a9 FRANCE 24            <\/p>\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\">Issued on: 07\/04\/2026 &#8211; 12:03<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tv-shows\/down-earth\/\" class=\"t-content__program m-program\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>From the show<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/01be7668-0eb3-11ee-adf4-005056bf30b7\/EN-down-to-earth.svg\"  alt=\"Down to Earth\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"a-img  a-img--svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        Reading time<br \/>\n                        1 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-content__chapo\">\n                                                What do beavers have to do with preventing flooding? The aquatic rodents have become a source of inspiration for engineers looking to flood\u2013proof rural areas. Beaver dams are one of the nature-based solutions being considered by the European Union in a \u20ac15 million project. The L\u00e8ze valley in the south of France is putting them to the test.                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWN TO EARTH \u00a9 FRANCE 24 Issued on: 07\/04\/2026 &#8211; 12:03 From the show Reading time 1 min&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3179,3176,825,3178,5,3177],"class_list":{"0":"post-3210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-climate","9":"tag-down-to-earth","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-floods","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-water"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}