{"id":496581,"date":"2026-03-26T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496581\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:07:08","slug":"wolves-put-down-by-kent-charity-after-pack-dynamics-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496581\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves put down by Kent charity after &#8216;pack dynamics&#8217; break down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Kent animal conservation charity has said it had &#8220;no choice&#8221; but to euthanise its wolf pack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildwood Trust, near Herne Bay, said the &#8220;heartbreaking decision&#8221; was needed to &#8220;prevent further suffering&#8221; after three of the five wolves sustained serious injuries from infighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pack&#8217;s dynamics had broken down, which was risking the animals&#8217; quality of life and safety, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust, which says its &#8220;mission is to protect, conserve and rewild British wildlife&#8221;, added it had made a range of interventions to try and stabilise the pack. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kent animal conservation charity has said it had &#8220;no choice&#8221; but to euthanise its wolf pack. Wildwood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-496581","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\/496581","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=496581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}