{"id":177263,"date":"2025-12-10T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177263\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:20:09","slug":"moulton-college-partners-with-animal-conservation-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177263\/","title":{"rendered":"Moulton College partners with animal conservation charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Alice Clark, conservation scientist at Nature&#8217;s SAFE, said: &#8220;Around 18,000 animal species worldwide are formally recognised as being at risk of extinction \u2013 the real number is likely higher. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By banking living cells and working with managed breeding programmes, Nature&#8217;s SAFE aims to give conservationists a vital tool to restore genetic diversity in dwindling animal populations, improving their health, resilience to climate change, and chances of long-term survival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity works with more than 90 zoos, wildlife parks, and rescue centres across the UK to capture samples from species at risk, using advanced cryopreservation techniques to preserve cell structure and viability for future use. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To date, the charity has preserved samples from more than 350 different species of mammals, reptiles, fish, amphibians, birds, and coral, including the Sumatran tiger, the ring-tailed lemur, and the Eurasian red squirrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Alice Clark, conservation scientist at Nature&#8217;s SAFE, said: &#8220;Around 18,000 animal species worldwide are formally recognised as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-177263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}