{"id":496236,"date":"2026-03-26T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496236\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:41:08","slug":"jersey-zoo-boss-considering-bringing-in-more-endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496236\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey Zoo boss considering bringing in more endangered species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside improving the zoo&#8217;s reputation, Habben wanted to look at its future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In five years&#8217; time, he hoped the zoo would be filled with animals which represented the work the trust does globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He admitted this might involve removing some species which were not endangered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Meerkats would be quite a strong example of an animal that I&#8217;d wonder what the role of a meerkat is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At some point, I think I probably would [get rid of them].<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think that&#8217;s as fair as I can say at this moment in time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said there might be similar &#8220;social, gregarious&#8221; animals which are a better fit for the zoo&#8217;s mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he would like to house species which were not showcased as much, including invertebrates and freshwater fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alongside improving the zoo&#8217;s reputation, Habben wanted to look at its future. In five years&#8217; time, he hoped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496236","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=496236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}