{"id":282384,"date":"2025-11-25T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282384\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:45:08","slug":"beloved-and-cherished-red-panda-dies-at-cornwall-wildlife-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282384\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beloved and cherished&#8217; red panda dies at Cornwall wildlife park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zookeepers have said they are sad after a &#8220;beloved and cherished&#8221; red panda died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suri, who was more than 10 years old, had been at Paradise Park, in Hayle, Cornwall, since 2016, where she had taken part in visitor handling sessions, keepers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said the wildlife sanctuary had given more than \u00a320,000 to the Red Panda Network, a conservation and research group, from donations from the sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keeper Becky Waite said Suri had been very popular with visitors as she had often chosen to sit on their laps and be hand-fed while they learnt about the work being done to protect red pandas in the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zookeepers have said they are sad after a &#8220;beloved and cherished&#8221; red panda died. Suri, who was more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-282384","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\/282384","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=282384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}