{"id":648041,"date":"2026-11-01T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648041\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:16:09","slug":"the-dangerous-wild-animals-being-kept-in-norfolk-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648041\/","title":{"rendered":"The dangerous wild animals being kept in Norfolk collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The statistics by Born Free, an international wildlife charity, show the various animals living across the county.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Its 2026 survey revealed more than 2,270 &#8220;dangerous wild animals&#8221; are licensed to be kept privately in Great Britain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A total of 156 private addresses across 115 local authorities hold licences or are in the application process to keep dangerous wild animals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Data shows that there are no animals classed by the charity as dangerous wild animals living in Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Broadland or Breckland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, in south Norfolk, there are a total of three servals, a small wild cat native to sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a pair of savannah cat crosses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>There are 33 blackbucks living in King&#8217;s Lynn and West Norfolk (Image: WikiCommons\/Tisha Mukherjee)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25555749.clouded-leopards-among-dangerous-animals-living-norfolk\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Norfolk<\/a>, three lowland tapirs and two Bactrian camels are being kept by licensed owners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Finally, King&#8217;s Lynn and west Norfolk is home to a whopping 33 blackbucks, a type of antelope commonly found in India and Nepal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This represents an increase of eight from 2025, when the total number of blackbucks in the area was 25.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The statistics for 2026 make rather different reading from last year&#8217;s data.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last year it showed that two clouded leopards and a lemur were being kept in Breckland while Broadland was housing a wild boar and an ostrich.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This year, both of these local authorities now house none of these animals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Born Free has warned that while the data makes for interesting reading, these animals may well not be the only dangerous ones being kept in Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  All animals are being kept legally under the Dangerous Animals Act 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statistics by Born Free, an international wildlife charity, show the various animals living across the county. Its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-648041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648041","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=648041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}