{"id":950402,"date":"2026-05-10T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950402\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:21:21","slug":"attenborough-at-100-the-region-where-sir-david-learned-to-love-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/950402\/","title":{"rendered":"Attenborough at 100: The region where Sir David &#8216;learned to love wildlife&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To mark Sir David&#8217;s 100th birthday, a tree was planted outside College House on Friday as part of a day of celebrations across the East Midlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">University of Leicester president and vice-chancellor, Prof Sir Nishan Canagarajah, described the naturalist as &#8220;a tireless advocate for the planet and a cherished part of our university&#8217;s history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cara Hewitt, a ranger at Bradgate Park, told the BBC Sir David&#8217;s influence is still felt among her colleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We come here and we want to care for the same land that he once had a spark for,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We consider ourselves a small park, and then to know that we still hold a place in his heart, it&#8217;s amazing to think we are like a treasure to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another important &#8211; but far lesser known &#8211; spot for Sir David was Tilton Railway Cutting, situated between Leicester and Oakham in Rutland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To mark Sir David&#8217;s 100th birthday, a tree was planted outside College House on Friday as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-950402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116550256989346452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950402","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=950402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}