A newly hatched baby pancake tortoise has been described as “a symbol of hope for the future” of one of the world’s most threatened species of tortoise.<\/p>\n
Jimmy’s Farm and Wildlife Park, in Wherstead, near Ipswich, welcomed the tiny tortoise following a carefully monitored incubation programme.<\/p>\n
The arrival has been branded a “significant conservation success” for the threatened species, which has declined in numbers by about 80% over the past 30 years.<\/p>\n
The hatchling, which will be named by the public, is the offspring of resident pancake tortoises Waffle and Maple and is already said to be thriving.<\/p>\n
The species is classed as critically endangered by The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species<\/p>\n
“We’re delighted to welcome this tiny new arrival,” a spokesperson for the award-winning wildlife park said.<\/p>\n
“This little tortoise is a symbol of hope for the future of the species and highlights the vital work being done to protect some of the world’s most threatened animals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A newly hatched baby pancake tortoise has been described as “a symbol of hope for the future” of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-641993","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\/641993","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=641993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}