\n One of the snow leopard cubs being checked over at Marwell Zoo (Image: Marwell Zoo)\n<\/p>\n
\n Warjun and Zaya were paired last year through the European conservation breeding programme.\n<\/p>\n
\n Their arrival is Marwell Zoo\u2019s first snow leopard birth since 2013.\n<\/p>\n
\n Snow leopards survive in small, scattered populations across the mountains of Central and South Asia.\n<\/p>\n
\n Roads, development, farming and climate change are putting those habitats under growing pressure.\n<\/p>\n
\n Marwell Zoo works with partners in Bhutan, China, and Kazakhstan to support snow leopard conservation in the wild.\n<\/p>\n
\n The cubs are growing more confident and adventurous, giving visitors a better chance of spotting them.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other recent arrivals include baby white rhino Amali, twin cotton-headed tamarins, a coppery titi monkey and a baby potoroo.\n<\/p>\n
\n The cubs are Zaya’s first litter, after she joined Marwell Zoo in March 2025.\n<\/p>\n
\n Marwell previously launched a \u00a320,000 appeal towards a more than \u00a3150,000 project to double the size of the snow leopard enclosure and support breeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 13-week-old cubs, born in May marking the first cubs of its species to be born at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-750700","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\/750700","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=750700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}