{"id":10590,"date":"2017-10-13T03:22:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T01:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/13\/penguin-disaster-as-just-two-chicks-survive-from-colony-of-40000\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T03:22:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T01:22:55","slug":"penguin-disaster-as-just-two-chicks-survive-from-colony-of-40000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=10590","title":{"rendered":"Penguin disaster as just two chicks survive from colony of 40,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Catastrophic breeding event\u2019 leads to demands for a marine protected area to be set up in East AntarcticaA colony of about 40,000 Ad\u00e9lie penguins in Antarctica has suffered a \u201ccatastrophic breeding event\u201d \u2013 all but two chicks have died of starvation this year. It is the second time in just four years that such devastation \u2013 not previously seen in more than 50 years of observation \u2013 has been wrought on the population.The finding has prompted urgent calls for the establishment of a marine protected area in East Antarctica, at next week\u2019s meeting of 24 nations and the European Union at the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Hobart. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/oct\/12\/penguin-catastrophe-leads-to-demands-for-protection-in-east-antarctica\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin disaster as just two chicks survive from colony of 40,000<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Catastrophic breeding event\u2019 leads to demands for a marine protected area to be set up in East AntarcticaA colony of about 40,000 Ad\u00e9lie penguins in Antarctica has suffered a \u201ccatastrophic breeding event\u201d \u2013 all but two chicks have died of starvation this year. It is the second time in just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}