{"id":566974,"date":"2026-05-05T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566974\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:54:08","slug":"wingham-wildlife-park-welcomes-three-male-asiatic-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566974\/","title":{"rendered":"Wingham Wildlife Park welcomes three male Asiatic lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A wildlife park in Kent has welcomed three Asiatic lions, saying it is now the only place in the county to have these endangered animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wingham Wildlife Park in Canterbury said it was &#8220;delighted&#8221; to have Theo, Rakesh and Thor joining their sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lions, which are all two-years-old born from the same litter, arrived from Fota Wildlife Park in Ireland at the beginning of May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tony Binskin, managing director, said this was a &#8220;significant moment&#8221; for the wildlife park as well as conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife park in Kent has welcomed three Asiatic lions, saying it is now the only place in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-566974","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\/566974","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=566974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}