{"id":1971,"date":"2007-03-15T11:08:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T11:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2007-03-15T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T11:10:03","slug":"animals-in-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1971","title":{"rendered":"Animals in peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d hardly think it possible, but a <a href = \"http:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/conservation\/story\/0,,2034219,00.html\">new species of great cat<\/a> has been identified &#8211; the Bornean clouded leopard (<em>Neofelis diardi<\/em>). Of course you can guess the final lines of the story &#8211; numbers are thought to be small, and he species endangered. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>And an introduced species is facing an equally bleak future &#8211; <A href = \"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/australasia\/article2359077.ece\">camels<\/a>, although not native to Australia (and less harmful than the hard-hooved sheep, goats and cattle that tear up the ancient soils) are said to be causing ecological chaos (when they aren&#8217;t dying of thirst in the drought), and culls are planned. Or worse&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The plan will examine the economic opportunities presented by the camels, including making them into pet food and building up exports. Australia does not have a licensed camel abattoir, but it exports live camels to South-east Asia, where they are slaughtered for their meat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are feral &#8212; ie wild &#8212; camels. The kind of stress they must undergo during live export doesn&#8217;t bear thinking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d hardly think it possible, but a new species of great cat has been identified &#8211; the Bornean clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi). Of course you can guess the final lines of the story &#8211; numbers are thought to be small, and he species endangered. Sigh. And an introduced species is facing an equally bleak future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","category-science","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}