{"id":339384,"date":"2026-07-14T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339384\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:41:50","slug":"florida-temporary-sloth-import-ban-lifted-new-restrictions-enacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339384\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida temporary sloth import ban lifted, new restrictions enacted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">The temporary ban in importing sloths to Florida has been lifted after the ban expired on July 10. This ban came after 57 sloths died from Orlando&#8217;s failed Sloth World exhibit. Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani talked with FOX 35 about a wildlife importation permit, in which the FWC will inspect facilities before importing the species.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0July 12, 2026 8:38am EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The temporary ban in importing sloths to Florida has been lifted after the ban expired on July 10.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-339384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}