{"id":82113,"date":"2025-10-15T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82113\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:15:10","slug":"orphan-of-the-road-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82113\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphan of the Road | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando Faciole&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Faciole (Brazil) watches an orphaned giant anteater pup follow its caregiver at a rehabilitation centre.<\/p>\n<p>Road collisions are a leading cause of the decline in giant anteater numbers in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>This pup\u2019s mother was killed by a vehicle. Its caregiver will encourage it to develop crucial survival skills, with the goal of releasing it back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Rehabilitation centres like this are run by the Anteaters and Highways project of the Wild Animal Conservation Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute is also developing strategies to reduce anteater deaths on Brazil\u2019s roads. These include putting up fences and building underground tunnels to allow the anteaters to cross safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Faciole&#8217;s Image Fernando Faciole (Brazil) watches an orphaned giant anteater pup follow its caregiver at a rehabilitation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,3741,82,263,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":{"0":"post-82113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-nature-photography","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wildlife-competition","14":"tag-wildlife-images","15":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","16":"tag-wildphoto","17":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82113","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=82113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}