{"id":455932,"date":"2026-03-03T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455932\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:08:07","slug":"white-tiger-saved-from-war-finds-new-home-in-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455932\/","title":{"rendered":"White tiger saved from war finds new home in Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A distinctive white tiger rescued from conflict-hit Ukraine has found a new home in Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aleks arrived at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park, near Friskney, on Saturday after a three-day, 1,600 mile (2,500km) journey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Park director Steve Nichols said military volunteers looking for survivors in &#8220;bombed-out&#8221; areas came across him in a residential back garden in June 2024 in the Kharkiv region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nichols said, despite his long journey, Aleks was &#8220;very grumpy, very achy and very tired,&#8221; and added, &#8220;but in all honesty he&#8217;s actually settling in a little bit better than we thought he would do&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A distinctive white tiger rescued from conflict-hit Ukraine has found a new home in Lincolnshire. Aleks arrived at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-455932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455932","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=455932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}