{"id":325047,"date":"2026-08-19T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325047\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:46:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-first-river-otter-spotted-in-the-bronx-after-nearly-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325047\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | First River Otter Spotted In The Bronx After Nearly 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx Zoo confirmed the first river otter sighting in The Bronx in over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Bronx Zoo posted a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bronxzoo\/posts\/pfbid02AUvqyieT9ztfVPoYX5qZc1D8hYGnUDuVo4NMgBPCuSoURsgtrsBze86yUmHP1JMLl?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZYp2BTqXdLFDwUMRwG_-3zvgWQlB_GhGMSlsYIi2bZMPEAEOddNBQ499n8tPrVm1FEGaJmjLQSVquvveGh750_EM7XgW3MimJTxQZ_a4YXPHsRKKp5jGjYpVFyWvY8EHu5HmzQn51M530-IHHAF4mLJyFaxVmQAE8vPi03MFXiN_exHlpFMYdjxYMGtaxmQGw8&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">photo of the animal<\/a> along the Bronx River dated June 23. It was taken by a motion-activated camera set up by local scientist RJ Hawkins.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">River otters used to range throughout New York\u2019s waterways but disappeared due to pollution, habitat degradation and unregulated trapping.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Researchers say the sighting proves that decades of restoration and conservation efforts are transforming the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx Zoo confirmed the first river otter sighting in The Bronx in over 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-325047","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\/325047","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=325047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}