{"id":331541,"date":"2026-08-28T02:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331541\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T02:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:28:22","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-zoo-works-to-rehabilitate-hundreds-of-turtles-rescued-from-illegal-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331541\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Zoo Works To Rehabilitate Hundreds Of Turtles Rescued From Illegal Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Bronx Zoo is working to rehabilitate hundreds of turtles rescued from the illegal wildlife trade.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Wildlife Conservation Society says the zoo has become a safe haven, helping more than 800 turtles since 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Federal officials say there has been an unprecedented surge in turtle trafficking recently.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Turtles taken to the zoo receive a comprehensive intake examination that records their sex, species, weight and overall health condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">From there they are given veterinary treatment and treated for any injuries or disease.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Once they are deemed healthy, the animals are transferred to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service so they can be released back to the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bronx Zoo is working to rehabilitate hundreds of turtles rescued from the illegal wildlife trade. The Wildlife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-331541","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\/331541","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=331541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}