{"id":92522,"date":"2025-10-23T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/92522\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:52:08","slug":"bears-enjoy-life-to-the-full-after-major-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/92522\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears &#8216;enjoy life to the full&#8217; after major rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two bears rescued from &#8220;deplorable conditions&#8221; in Armenia by an East Sussex charity have been making the most of their new lives in a bear sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Giant Siberian bear Max and Syrian bear Minnie were living in a bus depot for the entertainment of travellers until they were saved in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The rescue operation was carried out by International Animal Rescue (IAR), based in Uckfield, and the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets in Armenia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Alan Knight, IAR president, told the BBC it was &#8220;heart-warming&#8221; to see how healthy and playful Max and Minnie were &#8220;after years of cruelty and neglect&#8221;. &#8220;They are seizing a second chance to enjoy life to the full,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two bears rescued from &#8220;deplorable conditions&#8221; in Armenia by an East Sussex charity have been making the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-92522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}