{"id":182624,"date":"2025-12-09T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182624\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:02:07","slug":"watch-wild-ireland-transforms-into-the-wild-arctic-for-the-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182624\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Wild Ireland transforms into the Wild Arctic for the festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Ireland transforms into the Wild Arctic for the festive season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wild Arctic hosts reindeer, arctic foxes, and snowy owls. The winter wonderland is decked with Christmas lights and offers an opportunity to meet Santa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wild Arctic began during Covid-19, when it became difficult to obtain funds to feed the animals. A ticket is required for admission to the Wild Arctic, which can be purchased on the<a href=\"https:\/\/wildireland.org\/book-tickets\/\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wild Ireland is an animal sanctuary based in Dundrain, Burnfoot. Established by Killian McLaughlin in 2019, a Buncrana native who is also a solicitor and zoologist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wild Ireland offers rescue and gives a natural habitat to various animals who have been abandoned, exploited or abused. Not only that, but the sanctuary also hosts educational talks in a bid to inform visitors of important conservation issues and welfare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild Ireland transforms into the Wild Arctic for the festive season.\u00a0 The Wild Arctic hosts reindeer, arctic foxes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75385,1485,61,5969,60,43,99090],"class_list":["post-182624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-burnfoot","tag-donegal","tag-ie","tag-inishowen","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-wild-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}