{"id":216495,"date":"2026-05-01T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216495\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:55:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-toucans-rescued-from-wildlife-traffickers-now-thriving-at-the-bronx-zoo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216495\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Toucans Rescued From Wildlife Traffickers Now Thriving At The Bronx Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More than a dozen toucans rescued from wildlife traffickers are now thriving after getting a second chance at life.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Visitors at the Bronx Zoo can now see two of these colorful birds. They&#8217;re among 14 trafficked toucans that were rescued after being confiscated at the U.S.-Mexico border last summer. After months of intense rehab, staff members were able to nurse all 14 birds back to health.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;These birds are a testament to the animal care staff and the care that we provide and the obligation that we have to all of these animals,&#8221; said Chuck Cerbini, the Bronx Zoo&#8217;s curator of ornithology.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Bronx Zoo also hopes this brings more awareness to the problem of wildlife trafficking and the need for continued policies to keep animals safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a dozen toucans rescued from wildlife traffickers are now thriving after getting a second chance at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-216495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}