{"id":331578,"date":"2026-03-06T06:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:39:08","slug":"watch-moment-wolf-rescued-from-canal-in-northern-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331578\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Moment wolf rescued from canal in northern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters have rescued a wolf that had fallen into a canal in the town of San Giovanni Lupatoto, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The distressed animal had taken refuge from flowing waters beneath a footbridge, before the fire brigade&#8217;s river rescue team arrived to save it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After manoeuvring it onto land, firefighters handed the sedated female wolf over to veterinarians for care, ahead of an anticipated release into the wild. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italian wolves are a protected species in the country. An estimated 950 live in Italy&#8217;s Alpine region, with more than 3,000 recorded in the nation as a whole by the latest official survey, carried out in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters have rescued a wolf that had fallen into a canal in the town of San Giovanni Lupatoto,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-331578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331578","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=331578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}