{"id":212583,"date":"2025-10-20T06:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212583\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:44:06","slug":"newborn-giant-otters-add-to-worlds-largest-romp-in-new-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212583\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn giant otters add to world&#8217;s largest romp in New Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three giant otter cubs born through a breeding programme have boosted the world&#8217;s largest captive population of the endangered species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Forest Wildlife Park said the latest arrivals brought its giant otter population to over half of the UK&#8217;s entire captive population of 21, and &#8220;marked another milestone in the fight to save a species teetering on the brink in the wild&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mum and dad, Ibera and Simuni, welcomed the cubs on 2 August and the babies passed their health check on 1 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Giant otters are native to the Amazon basin and face increasing threats from habitat destruction, illegal hunting, and pollution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three giant otter cubs born through a breeding programme have boosted the world&#8217;s largest captive population of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-212583","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\/212583","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=212583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}