{"id":675090,"date":"2026-07-05T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675090\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:45:08","slug":"endangered-pygmy-hogs-released-in-india-by-jersey-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675090\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered pygmy hogs released in India by Jersey trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Parag Jyoti Deka, director of the conservation programme said it would continue to strengthen its post-release monitoring strategies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The most recent release involving camera-trap and sign surveys along with a radio-telemetry tracking of five pygmy hogs to assess their behaviour, survival, and habitat use after reintroduction,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deka added every additional step taken would allow them to &#8220;learn and create a better, stronger future for this fascinating species&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Vinay Gupta, principal chief conservator of forests and chief wildlife warden of Assam said the reintroduction was a &#8220;remarkable conservation achievement&#8221; and such efforts &#8220;are vital for restoring grassland ecosystems and safeguarding threatened species&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Parag Jyoti Deka, director of the conservation programme said it would continue to strengthen its post-release monitoring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-675090","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\/675090","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=675090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}