{"id":47951,"date":"2026-03-05T05:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-wolf-rescued-from-canal-in-northern-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:21:38","slug":"moment-wolf-rescued-from-canal-in-northern-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-wolf-rescued-from-canal-in-northern-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment wolf rescued from canal in northern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Firefighters have rescued a wolf that had fallen into a canal in the town of San Giovanni Lupatoto, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The distressed animal had taken refuge from flowing waters beneath a footbridge, before the fire brigade&#8217;s river rescue team arrived to save it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">After manoeuvring it onto land, firefighters handed the sedated female wolf over to veterinarians for care, ahead of an anticipated release into the wild. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Italian wolves are a protected species in the country. An estimated 950 live in Italy&#8217;s Alpine region, with more than 3,000 recorded in the nation as a whole by the latest official survey, carried out in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cy7jjnekeepo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters have rescued a wolf that had fallen into a canal in the town of San Giovanni Lupatoto, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. The distressed animal had taken refuge from flowing waters beneath a footbridge, before the fire brigade&#8217;s river rescue team arrived to save it. After manoeuvring it onto land, firefighters handed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47953,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47951\/revisions\/47953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}