{"id":2032,"date":"2010-12-06T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2010\/12\/species-of-the-day-green-turtle\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T13:34:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:34:18","slug":"species-of-the-day-green-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/species-of-the-day-green-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Species of the Day: Green Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The IUCN Red List of Threatened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/species-of-the-day\">Species of the Day<\/a> is the Green Turtle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The <b>Green Turtle<\/b>, <i>Chelonia mydas<\/i>, is listed as \u2018Endangered\u2019 on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 5.8px\/normal Arial;\">TM<\/span>. This long-lived and highly migratory species is found in tropical and, to a lesser extent, sub-tropical waters throughout the globe. The Green Turtle has the most numerous and widely dispersed nesting sites of the seven turtle species.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Green Turtles are among the species who regularly nest along the Pacific coast of Nicaragua on the nesting beaches where our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pasopacifico.org\/turtle-rangers\">Turtle Rangers<\/a> protect the turtles and their eggs until the hatchlings can make their way to the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on this species, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/sotdfiles\/chelonia-mydas.pdf\">IUCN Fact Sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species of the Day is the Green Turtle. The Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, is listed as \u2018Endangered\u2019 on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This long-lived and highly migratory species is found in tropical and, to a lesser extent, sub-tropical waters throughout the globe. The Green Turtle has [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wildlife-conservation","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}