{"id":240690,"date":"2025-11-03T04:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240690\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T04:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:21:11","slug":"your-best-photos-of-benji-and-balu-bears-on-isle-of-wight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240690\/","title":{"rendered":"Your best photos of Benji and Balu bears on Isle of Wight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  See the gallery of photos above\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Taken by talented Island photographers, the photos capture the pair exploring, playing, and relaxing in their new woodland and water habitat at the Sanctuary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Benji and Balu arrived in Sandown in June after being rescued from appalling conditions in Azerbaijan, where they had spent years confined in a concrete cage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, thanks to a huge fundraising effort and an international rescue mission, they are enjoying a far more natural life, with space to roam, ponds to swim in, and expert care from the Wildheart team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The photos were shared on our Isle of Wight County Press Camera Club Facebook group, which now has more than 1,800 members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See the gallery of photos above Taken by talented Island photographers, the photos capture the pair exploring, playing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-240690","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\/240690","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=240690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}