{"id":6402,"date":"2018-11-07T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T22:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:30:20","slug":"humans-are-preventing-the-recovery-of-north-atlantic-right-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/humans-are-preventing-the-recovery-of-north-atlantic-right-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans are preventing the recovery of North Atlantic right whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rsos.180892\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Royal Society Open Science<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published\u00a0November 7, 2018\u00a0\u00a017:01 ET<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.royalsociety.org\/thePressRelease.aspx?id=18850\" target=\"_blank\">Brief<\/a> from the Royal Society)<br \/>\nNorth Atlantic right whales have been declining for about seven years and, at the specie\u2019s peak, numbered less than 500 whales. Researchers show that, even when the numbers of whales were increasing, the death of adult females jeopardized the recovery, and that these deaths were caused primarily by people. Without the loss of adult females, the species\u2019 numbers could have almost doubled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author:<\/strong> Dr Peter Corkeron, NOAA Fisheries &#8211;\u00a0<a>peter.corkeron@noaa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Society Open Science Published\u00a0November 7, 2018\u00a0\u00a017:01 ET (Brief from the Royal Society) North Atlantic right whales have been declining for about seven years and, at the specie\u2019s peak, numbered less than 500 whales. Researchers show that, even when the numbers of whales were increasing, the death of adult females jeopardized the recovery, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Fg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}