{"id":97312,"date":"2025-08-27T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97312\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:20:07","slug":"black-leopard-sighting-sparks-emergency-meeting-in-silistra-region-novinite-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97312\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Leopard Sighting Sparks Emergency Meeting in Silistra Region &#8211; Novinite.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"399\">Authorities in Silistra are convening a crisis task force today at 12:00 following a new report of a black leopard spotted near Tutrakan. The regional governor, Iliyan Velikov, confirmed that a citizen had reported seeing the predator\u2014unusual for the area\u2014on Monday afternoon between the villages of Shumenci and Bogdantsi.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"401\" data-end=\"514\">Police presence was noted in the region that same evening, though initial checks found no traces of the animal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"516\" data-end=\"842\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">This is the latest in a series of similar alerts across Northern Bulgaria in recent months, including sightings near Shumen Plateau and the village of Mutnitsa. Experts note that the so-called &#8220;black panther&#8221; is not a separate species but likely a melanistic leopard\u2014an elusive nocturnal predator that favors rocky habitats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in Silistra are convening a crisis task force today at 12:00 following a new report of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-97312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97312","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=97312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}