{"id":911453,"date":"2026-09-30T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911453\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:24:09","slug":"still-a-chance-to-help-name-koala-joey-at-yanchep-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911453\/","title":{"rendered":"Still a chance to help name koala joey at Yanchep National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">People still have a chance to help choose a name for the new koala joey at Yanchep National Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">You can visit the park and cast your vote at the McNess House Visitor Centre, choosing from Karla, an Aboriginal word meaning \u201cfire\u201d, Scout, Pembi or Ash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Pembi would honour former Yanchep senior ranger John Wheeler, who hailed from Pemberton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Ash is inspired by the koala\u2019s scientific name, which translates to \u201cash-coloured pouched bear\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The winning name will be announced after the spring school holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People still have a chance to help choose a name for the new koala joey at Yanchep National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1313,64,63,44,47,46,128,45,338],"class_list":["post-911453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-north","tag-perth","tag-science","tag-wa-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911453","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=911453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}