{"id":948658,"date":"2026-05-09T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948658\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:35:16","slug":"sir-david-attenborough-inspires-creation-of-nature-recovery-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948658\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir David Attenborough inspires creation of nature recovery zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A wildlife trust has been inspired by Sir David Attenborough&#8217;s climate change mantra to designate 11 nature recovery zones in honour of the broadcaster&#8217;s 100th birthday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The zones encompass an area of 50,000 hectares &#8211; equivalent to 11 times the size of Gloucester &#8211; and among them are parts of the Forest of Dean, the Cotswolds and Stroud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust hopes to raise \u00a33m for Mission Wild, which will focus on restoring landscapes and reintroducing native species in the nature recovery zones, such as the Eurasian beaver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew McLaughlin, CEO of the trust, said: &#8220;Sir David&#8217;s always been very clear about that need to act with urgency and scale because this is the kind of thing that nature needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife trust has been inspired by Sir David Attenborough&#8217;s climate change mantra to designate 11 nature recovery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-948658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116545593392710717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948658","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=948658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}