{"id":334527,"date":"2025-12-25T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334527\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:38:11","slug":"starving-lions-bears-found-caged-in-abandoned-cambodian-casino-bangkok-post-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334527\/","title":{"rendered":"Starving lions, bears found caged in abandoned Cambodian casino Bangkok Post Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne of the two lions found in cages inside the now-abandoned Cambodian casino opposite the Thai Trat border. (Photo: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Five animals – two lions and three bears – were found abandoned in cages when Thai marines inspected a captured casino building immediately across the border from Trat province.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thai wildlife<\/a> officials<\/a> were rescuing the animals.<\/p>\n

Trat Marine Task Force soldiers inspected the now deserted casino<\/a> building on the Cambodian side of the border, opposite Ban Tha Sen.<\/p>\n

They found a pair of lions, two Asiatic black bears and one sun bear. All were locked in cages<\/a> and were severely emaciated<\/a> due to lack of food for a long time, the task force reported.<\/p>\n

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation sent a veterinary<\/a> team to the site on Monday to assess the animals\u2019 condition<\/a> and arrange for their immediate relocation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The move was made difficult by the animals’ weak condition<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rescue<\/a> operation was continuing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The plan was to move the bears to Bang Lamung Wildlife Breeding Centre in Chon Buri and the lions to Khao Zon Wildlife Breeding Centre in Ratchaburi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the two lions found in cages inside the now-abandoned Cambodian casino opposite the Thai Trat border.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[119022,119023,130203,4665,27927,119024,119025,4846,1244,90,4654,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-334527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bangkok-post","tag-bangkok-post-learning","tag-bangkokpost","tag-bears","tag-casino","tag-learn-english","tag-learn-english-from-news","tag-learning","tag-lions","tag-science","tag-thailand","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334527","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=334527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}