{"id":534820,"date":"2026-04-16T21:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534820\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:41:11","slug":"caged-bear-dies-before-making-way-to-jimmys-farm-ipswich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534820\/","title":{"rendered":"Caged bear dies before making way to Jimmy&#8217;s Farm Ipswich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Jimmy Doherty of Jimmy&#8217;s Farm and Wildlife Park in Wherstead went to South Korea to visit moon bears who have been caged.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They were used in bile farms before the industry was outlawed, but remain in captivity, with many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/25959399.jimmys-farm-owner-launches-mission-save-korean-bears\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">facing the risk of euthanasia.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>More than \u00a330,000 has been raised to save the bears. (Image: Jimmy&#8217;s Farm)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During his visit, Jimmy Doherty witnessed a moon bear who was 27 years-old having to be put down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/25964045.thousands-raised-far-bear-rescue-jimmys-farm\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The charity, Space for the wild,<\/a> which Mr Doherty is a chair of said: &#8220;Sadly, one beautiful soul couldn\u2019t be saved\u2026 27 years in a cage had taken its toll, and the kindest thing we could do was release her from her pain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The other five bears are now free from the cages, safe, and receiving urgent veterinary care at a government facility.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A purpose-built enclosure is already being created at the wildlife park in Suffolk, with more than \u00a330,000 raised to help the bears make the 5,500-mile journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Doherty of Jimmy&#8217;s Farm and Wildlife Park in Wherstead went to South Korea to visit moon bears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-534820","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\/534820","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=534820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}