{"id":636976,"date":"2026-06-13T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636976\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:41:09","slug":"longleat-welcomes-new-nubian-giraffe-to-help-save-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/636976\/","title":{"rendered":"Longleat welcomes new Nubian giraffe to help save species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The arrival of a new bull giraffe at a safari park could help save one of the world&#8217;s rarest species of the mammal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Longleat welcomed three-year-old Nubian giraffe Stanley to the park on Wednesday as part of an international effort to safeguard the critically endangered species, bosses said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are thought to be fewer than 500 of his species left in the wild, with a breeding programme in place to help secure their future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darren Beasley, head of animal operations, said it was &#8220;fantastic&#8221; to welcome Stanley to the existing herd at Longleat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The safari park lost its previous bull Thorn, who fathered 29 calves over the course of his life, in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keepers hope Stanley will continue the work of the European Endangered Species Programme once he reached full maturity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The arrival of a new bull giraffe at a safari park could help save one of the world&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-636976","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\/636976","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=636976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}