{"id":659358,"date":"2025-12-28T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659358\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:49:17","slug":"animals-rescued-from-cambodian-casino-after-being-caught-in-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659358\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals rescued from Cambodian casino after being caught in conflict | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of underfed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/lions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lions<\/a> and bears have been rescued from cages at a bombed-out Cambodian casino.<\/p>\n<p>Thai officials claim the animals, which were discovered during a sweep of a building seized by military in Trat province, were left malnourished after apparently having been neglected while being kept at the Thmor Dar Casino.<\/p>\n<p>Footage released by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/thailand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thailand<\/a>\u2019s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) shows two lions and a pair of Asiatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/black-bears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black bears<\/a> which have been rehoused. A sun bear was also recovered.<\/p>\n<p>A DNP official said the animals were found with their ribcages showing, and were in such poor condition they could not be tranquillised due to the risk of heart failure.<\/p>\n<p>The animals were rushed to specialist wildlife parks across Thailand against a backdrop of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/southeast-asia\/thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-border-fighting-b2890890.html\" title=\"Thailand and Cambodia agree ceasefire to end weeks of border fighting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weeks of border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A collection of underfed lions and bears have been rescued from cages at a bombed-out Cambodian casino. Thai&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-659358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115796099914802401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}