{"id":497657,"date":"2026-03-27T04:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497657\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:39:14","slug":"check-out-these-wonderful-wildlife-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497657\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out these wonderful wildlife photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nearly 86,000 people voted for this photo of a young Iberian lynx playing to win the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People&#8217;s Choice Award 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The photograph was taken by Austrian photographer Josef Stefan as the lynx played for around 20 minutes near to him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Iberian lynx is one of the world&#8217;s rarest wildcats but thanks to conservation efforts, more than 2,000 live in the wild now compared to fewer than 100 in the early 2000s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/c74v2lzwzjno\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">24 images were nominated for this award<\/a> and as well as the winning pic, four other finalists were highly commended. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Check them out below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 86,000 people voted for this photo of a young Iberian lynx playing to win the Wildlife Photographer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-497657","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\/497657","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=497657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}