{"id":7915,"date":"2025-09-03T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionmirror.com\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:50:24","slug":"lancashire-wildlife-trust-launches-project-to-restore-rare-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/lancashire-wildlife-trust-launches-project-to-restore-rare-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire Wildlife Trust launches project to restore rare insects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lancashire Wildlife Trust (LWT) has begun a drive to reintroduce three rare species\u2014large heath butterfly, bog bush cricket, and white-faced darter dragonfly\u2014once common across Lancashire and Greater Manchester\u2019s peat bogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These insects rely on lowland peatlands, 96% of which have been lost due to human activity. LWT has been restoring habitats by rebuilding water systems and replanting specialist vegetation and is now seeking \u00a320,000 to complete the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese insects play vital roles in the ecosystem,\u201d the trust said, noting their importance in pollination, decomposition, and controlling invertebrate populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior nature recovery officer Dr Matt McMullen explained that the species would struggle to survive without help, but restored habitats and public support could allow them to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancashire Wildlife Trust (LWT) has begun a drive to reintroduce three rare species\u2014large heath butterfly, bog bush cricket, and white-faced darter dragonfly\u2014once common across Lancashire and Greater Manchester\u2019s peat bogs. These insects rely on lowland peatlands, 96% of which have been lost due to human activity. LWT has been restoring habitats by rebuilding water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment-sustainability"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappusaha.com\/euronews24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}