{"id":308483,"date":"2025-11-25T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308483\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:00:10","slug":"beloved-and-cherished-red-panda-dies-at-cornwall-wildlife-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308483\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beloved and cherished&#8217; red panda dies at Cornwall wildlife park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Zookeepers have said they are sad after a &#8220;beloved and cherished&#8221; red panda died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Suri, who was more than 10 years old, had been at Paradise Park, in Hayle, Cornwall, since 2016, where she had taken part in visitor handling sessions, keepers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They said the wildlife sanctuary had given more than \u00a320,000 to the Red Panda Network, a conservation and research group, from donations from the sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Keeper Becky Waite said Suri had been very popular with visitors as she had often chosen to sit on their laps and be hand-fed while they learnt about the work being done to protect red pandas in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said Suri had left her companion Jai-Li behind and the park was hoped to become the home for more red pandas in the future as part of a European breeding programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Red Panda Network has reported that more than half the world&#8217;s red panda population has been lost in the wild during the past 20 years due to continuous loss of habitat and wildlife trading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, there are fewer than 10,000 red pandas remaining in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Almost 50% of the red panda&#8217;s habitat is in the Eastern Himalayas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zookeepers have said they are sad after a &#8220;beloved and cherished&#8221; red panda died. Suri, who was more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-308483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}