{"id":684246,"date":"2026-07-10T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:09:09","slug":"suffolk-charity-gives-portugals-last-circus-elephant-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684246\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk charity gives Portugal&#8217;s &#8216;last circus elephant&#8217; new life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Skinner, who teaches Year Three and Four classes at the school, said the pupils all felt &#8220;incredibly lucky&#8221; to have adopted Julie, but it had been hard for them to comprehend just how long she had spent in captivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we&#8217;ve had to explain how that looks and what the time looks like &#8211; the fact that she was five, and then in captivity for 40 years and how long that&#8217;s been,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve talked a lot about how long elephants live in captivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re just completely in love with the fact that she&#8217;s been released and is in a wonderful place, doing all these wonderful things that she&#8217;s not been able to do for such a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Suffolk? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Skinner, who teaches Year Three and Four classes at the school, said the pupils all felt &#8220;incredibly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-684246","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\/684246","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=684246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}