{"id":3470,"date":"2014-11-14T23:10:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2014-11-14T23:10:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:10:45","slug":"key-bird-habitats-under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/key-bird-habitats-under-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Key bird habitats under siege<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Over 350 of the world\u2019s Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) are under threat, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2012 protection was suspended in the Bay of Panama wetlands, one of the most important sites for migratory waterbirds in the Americas. Closer to home, British Columbia\u2019s Boundary Bay &#8211; Roberts Bank &#8211; Sturgeon Bank IBA is threatened by habitat degradation, fragmentation, and loss. Globally, over 12,000 IBAs have been identified by the report\u2019s authors, BirdLife International.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Identification, monitoring and conservation of Canada\u2019s 600 IBAs are overseen by Canadian BirdLife partners Bird Studies Canada and Nature Canada.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/datazone\/userfiles\/file\/IBAs\/pubs\/IBAsInDanger2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">brochure<\/a><\/span> summarizing the report and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdlife.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapJournal\/?appid=0b09be26062b4ab5b9dbb07a0e9a36a8\" target=\"_blank\">an interactive map<\/a><\/span> of IBAs are also available.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original report<\/span>\u00a0published by\u00a0Bird Studies Canada<em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>November 14, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 350 of the world\u2019s Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) are under threat, according to a new report. In 2012 protection was suspended in the Bay of Panama wetlands, one of the most important sites for migratory waterbirds in the Americas. Closer to home, British Columbia\u2019s Boundary Bay &#8211; Roberts Bank &#8211; Sturgeon Bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[174,170,114,869,1445],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-birds","tag-canada-en","tag-conservation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-TY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}