{"id":164334,"date":"2025-08-21T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164334\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:31:14","slug":"brookfield-zoo-welcoming-new-polar-bear-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164334\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookfield Zoo welcoming new polar bear this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-chicago-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new polar bear is coming to Chicago&#8217;s Brookfield Zoo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The zoo is welcoming 8-year-old Amelia Gray, coming from Oregon. She will join the polar bears Hope and Hudson later this fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to welcoming Amelia Gray to Brookfield Zoo Chicago, as her arrival is a powerful opportunity to educate the community of the critical need to protect this vulnerable species,&#8221; said Mark Wanner, associate vice president of animal care and conservation at Brookfield Zoo Chicago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/10-13-2023jhg-283.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"10-13-2023jhg-283.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Portrait of polar bear Amelia Gray. \u00a9 Oregon Zoo \/ photo by Michael Durham.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo officials said polar bears were the first species to be listed as threatened under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=https*3a*2f*2fwww.fws.gov*2flaw*2fendangered-species-act&amp;c=E,1,GQpm601uYlZkP1AviqKPOYn2BAntlmEUYjMGrjy9DhwRjiclW8it0dO3_uyIOtyyaBkM7fj_jpOAVrImDmesrVLJxmaqHSZKejiyDUgduTw,&amp;typo=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Endangered Species Act<\/a>. They said this was primarily due to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/elyssa-kaufman\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elyssa  Kaufman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Elyssa is a digital news producer for CBS Chicago. She covers breaking news and manages the station&#8217;s social media presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live A new polar bear is coming to Chicago&#8217;s Brookfield Zoo.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[88342,960,5386,1818,88734],"class_list":{"0":"post-164334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-brookfield-zoo","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-polar-bear"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115067950860423678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}