{"id":6637,"date":"2019-03-12T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2019-03-25T20:13:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:13:13","slug":"mapping-the-effects-of-guns-snares-and-bulldozers-on-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/mapping-the-effects-of-guns-snares-and-bulldozers-on-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the effects of guns, snares and bulldozers on biodiversity <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2018.2877\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PLOS Biology<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0March 12, 2019 14:00 ET<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2019-03\/p-mte030519.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from PLOS)<br \/>\nResearchers mapped the distribution of destructive human activities in locations occupied by 5,457 threatened birds, mammals and amphibians across the globe.\u00a0They found 1,237 species impacted by threats to than 90 per cent of their habitat, and 395 species impacted by threats across their entire range, including many charismatic large mammals. The study provides essential information for conservation and development planning and conservation agendas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author: <\/strong>Oscar Venter, University of Northern British Columbia &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:oscar.venter@unbc.ca\" target=\"_blank\">oscar.venter@unbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLOS Biology Published\u00a0March 12, 2019 14:00 ET (News release from PLOS) Researchers mapped the distribution of destructive human activities in locations occupied by 5,457 threatened birds, mammals and amphibians across the globe.\u00a0They found 1,237 species impacted by threats to than 90 per cent of their habitat, and 395 species impacted by threats across their entire [&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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1J3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637","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=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}