{"id":258236,"date":"2025-07-12T06:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258236\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T06:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:31:11","slug":"thriving-nature-reserve-near-stretham-all-began-with-a-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258236\/","title":{"rendered":"Thriving nature reserve near Stretham all began with a lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kingfishers Bridge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cambridgeshire-66786965\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was &#8220;almost exclusively a birder reserve&#8221;<\/a> until the Covid-19 pandemic, with visitor numbers rising from about 2,000 in 2019 to 21,000 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It now has a car park, a cafe, a visitor centre and a shop, as well as offering regular visitor tours of its rare habitats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Green said: &#8220;About 50 years ago, I realised that [to make] a wetland conservancy, it had to be with plenty of water to make it work, and so I made a lake \u2013 this followed with animals and birds using it every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He praised manager James Moss for expanding and developing the habitats after the farm officially became a nature reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[He] gradually found the right places on land and water, leading to a wonderful nature reserve for which he had an extraordinary ability for managing,&#8221; Mr Green said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kingfishers Bridge was &#8220;almost exclusively a birder reserve&#8221; until the Covid-19 pandemic, with visitor numbers rising from about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-258236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114838863326139410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}