A tiger which was rescued from traffickers in eastern Europe has been given a new home in the UK.<\/p>\n
Aqua has been brought to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in Wraxall, near Bristol, as part of a project to protect threatened carnivores. <\/p>\n
He was one of several tigers found at the border between Poland and Belarus in 2019.<\/p>\n
Emma Ogborne, a head keeper at Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm, said: “Aqua’s story is one of incredible endurance and resilience.”<\/p>\n
Before arriving in North Somerset, Aqua spent several years recovering at a rescue centre run by Animal Advocacy and Protection in Spain. <\/p>\n
“Building on the successes we have achieved with Project Carnivora, we are thrilled to welcome Aqua and continue inspiring future generations to care for wildlife,” added Ms Ogborne.<\/p>\n
With Aqua now in his new home, Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm will continue fundraising to expand the project.<\/p>\n
There are plans to increase the size of the tiger enclosure, and the zoo also hopes to build habitats for arctic foxes and hooded vultures.<\/p>\n
The project has already delivered a new lion enclosure for resident lions, mother and son duo, Arusha and Tau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tiger which was rescued from traffickers in eastern Europe has been given a new home in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-232475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232475","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=232475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}