{"id":455,"date":"2007-09-20T06:09:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=455"},"modified":"2007-09-20T06:09:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T12:09:43","slug":"say-bye-to-188-more-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Say Bye to 188 More Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/12\/AR2007091202322.html\">188 More Species Listed as Near Extinction &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>188 More Species Listed as Near Extinction<\/p>\n<p>By Juliet Eilperin<br \/>Washington Post Staff Writer<br \/>Thursday, September 13, 2007; Page A10<\/p>\n<p>Habitat loss, climate change and infectious diseases are pushing a growing number of species toward extinction, according to a report yesterday by the World Conservation Union.<\/p>\n<p>The organization&#8217;s 2007 &#8220;Red List,&#8221; the most sweeping annual scientific assessment of the world&#8217;s animals and plants, now lists 16,306 species as threatened with extinction, up from 16,118 last year. The addition of nearly 200 imperiled species to the list reflects the reality that the more scientists learn about the status of the world&#8217;s millions of species, the more they find that appear to be in trouble, experts said&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\nGreat apes are under increasing pressure from both hunting and disease,<br \/>\nthe report said, their numbers decimated by the bush-meat trade and by<br \/>\nthe Ebola virus. The Western gorilla population has declined more than<br \/>\n60 percent over the past 25 years and is now considered critically<br \/>\nendangered; during the past 15 years, roughly one-third of gorillas<br \/>\nthat died in protected areas fell prey to the lethal virus.<\/p>\n<p>\nBetween 2003 and 2005, 55 percent of the Western gorillas in the Congo Republic&#8217;s Odzala National Park died of the virus.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>188 More Species Listed as Near Extinction &#8211; washingtonpost.com 188 More Species Listed as Near Extinction By Juliet EilperinWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, September 13, 2007; Page A10 Habitat loss, climate change and infectious diseases are pushing a growing number of species toward extinction, according to a report yesterday by the World Conservation Union. The organization&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Say Bye to 188 More Species<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}