{"id":646587,"date":"2025-12-21T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/646587\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:32:20","slug":"university-students-paint-wildlife-mural-at-turbary-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/646587\/","title":{"rendered":"University students paint wildlife mural at Turbary Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Ayesha Ballen and Leigh Clark, two students from Arts University Bournemouth recently created a new mural situated in the Turbary Common nature reserve.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their artwork is said to capture and bring to life some of the heath&#8217;s &#8216;most iconic&#8217; species, including basking sand lizards and silver-studded blues.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The students volunteered their time to design and paint the mural, drawing inspiration from visits to heathlands and conversations in the area with heathland ranger Matt Langsford.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their goal was to capture the &#8216;beauty and diversity&#8217; of this rare habitat while raising awareness of the importance of protecting it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Visitors are encouraged to stop by, take a closer look, and learn more about the rare species that call the heath home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They said that this collaborative project not only showcases the beauty and diversity of heathland habitats, it\u2019s also a wonderful example of how art can help connect people with nature, and how volunteering can bring fresh energy and ideas to conservation work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayesha Ballen and Leigh Clark, two students from Arts University Bournemouth recently created a new mural situated in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-646587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115758520237770741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646587","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=646587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}