{"id":249278,"date":"2026-01-17T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249278\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:49:08","slug":"endangered-tigers-celebrate-first-birthday-with-pile-of-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249278\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered tigers celebrate first birthday with pile of boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three endangered tigers have celebrated their first birthday with a rummage through a pile of cardboard boxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nova, Nadirah and Naresh have turned one and Kasha Carter, head of carnivores at West Midlands Safari Park, said: &#8220;As we all know cats love boxes, so we thought we would treat them to a massive stack of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sumatran tiger cubs were born as part of a European breeding programme, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) believes there may be just 400 of their species left in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are said to be close to extinction because of habitat loss, conflict with humans and poaching for the illegal trade in tiger body parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three endangered tigers have celebrated their first birthday with a rummage through a pile of cardboard boxes. Nova,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-249278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249278","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=249278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}