{"id":124959,"date":"2025-10-16T03:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124959\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:04:25","slug":"skin-and-bones-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124959\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin and Bones | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Jones&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Amy Jones (UK) witnesses the rescue of a tiger as it struggles to walk, resting its fragile body against the concrete of its enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Amy worked with Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand to document the rescue of three leopards and 12 tigers from a breeding facility in northern Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>This tiger was too frail for anaesthesia. The team spent hours gently coaxing it into a transport cage before its journey to a forested sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 9,000 tigers are held in farms across East and Southeast Asia, including around 1,600 in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>These facilities often breed tigers for cubs for petting, and to supply the illegal trade in their body parts.<\/p>\n<p>In stark contrast, it\u2019s estimated there are just 3,140 mature tigers in the wild across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy Jones&#8217;s Image Amy Jones (UK) witnesses the rescue of a tiger as it struggles to walk, resting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-124959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}