{"id":84940,"date":"2025-08-22T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84940\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:03:07","slug":"critically-endangered-cubs-make-debut-at-yorkshire-wildlife-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84940\/","title":{"rendered":"Critically endangered cubs make debut at Yorkshire Wildlife Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The population reached its low point last century, with only about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifaw.org\/international\/animals\/amur-leopard\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30 individuals estimated to remain, external<\/a> in the wild, and amur leopards are now the most critically endangered big cat species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their numbers have been affected by illegal hunting and trading, and damage to their forest habitats from climate change and global demand for wood and paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, in the last two decades, conservation efforts have seen the subspecies&#8217; territory increase threefold to about 2,350 square miles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wildlife Foundation charity, which is based at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, supports the conservation of leopards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This has included working with the WildCats Conservation Alliance to promote breeding, population monitoring and habitat protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The population reached its low point last century, with only about 30 individuals estimated to remain, external in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-84940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84940","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=84940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}