{"id":2086,"date":"2012-05-10T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2012\/05\/conservationists-catch-22\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T14:58:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T20:58:26","slug":"conservationists-catch-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/conservationists-catch-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservationists&#8217; Catch-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/nature\/conservationists-catch22-what-to-do-when-one-endangered-species-starts-eating-another-7723175.html\">The Independent<\/a> asks what to do when one endangered species starts eating another:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That is the problem facing environmentalists whose research shows that jaguars, themselves at risk of extinction, are increasingly preying on endangered turtle species.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said that the predation of adult turtles by the big cats in a Costa Rican national park \u201chas now reached a magnitude never before recorded\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore and more jaguars are being pushed towards the coastline, where they find sea turtles, which are easy prey,\u201d said Diogo Verissimo, researcher with the Durrell Institute of Ecology and Conservation and Global Vision International.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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 Independent asks what to do when one endangered species starts eating another: That is the problem facing environmentalists whose research shows that jaguars, themselves at risk of extinction, are increasingly preying on endangered turtle species. Experts said that the predation of adult turtles by the big cats in a Costa Rican national park \u201chas [&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-2086","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\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6315,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/6315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}