{"id":204362,"date":"2025-10-16T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204362\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:31:10","slug":"endangered-deer-species-brought-to-watatunga-wildlife-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204362\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered deer species brought to Watatunga Wildlife Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Watatunga Wildlife Reserve near King&#8217;s Lynn welcomed the arrival of three Visayan spotted deer, brought in from zoos in Colchester, Edinburgh and Chester.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The breed is a red-listed species and is one of the most endangered deer species in the world.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>One of the new deer interacting with existing deer at the reserve(Image: Phil Stone)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is believed that there are fewer than 700 left in the wild.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This is a huge step for us as a reserve,&#8221; Molly Ruder, reserve operations manager at Watatunga, said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cTo play a role in safeguarding one of the most endangered deer species in the world is a real honour and responsibility.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25523132.5-best-norfolk-pubs-autumnal-pit-stop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5 of the best pubs in Norfolk for an autumnal pit stop<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Two of the deer at the wildlife park(Image: Phil Stone)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We want our visitors, and Norfolk, to feel proud that we are helping secure the future of a species that could otherwise be lost.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The three deer, who are around one year old, &#8220;are now settling into their new home&#8221; and are all &#8220;showing positive behaviours&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watatunga Wildlife Reserve near King&#8217;s Lynn welcomed the arrival of three Visayan spotted deer, brought in from zoos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-204362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}