{"id":148402,"date":"2020-06-16T02:36:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/16\/diego-the-tortoise-father-to-hundreds-and-saviour-of-his-species-finally-retires\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T02:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:36:29","slug":"diego-the-tortoise-father-to-hundreds-and-saviour-of-his-species-finally-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=148402","title":{"rendered":"Diego the tortoise, father to hundreds and saviour of his species, finally retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giant tortoise, whose reproductive efforts almost single-handedly saved his species, has been moved to an uninhabited islandDiego, the giant Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise whose tireless efforts are credited with almost single-handedly saving his once-threatened species, has been put out to pasture on his native island after decades of breeding in captivity, Ecuador\u2019s environment minister said.Diego was shipped out from the Gal\u00e1pagos national park\u2019s breeding program on Santa Cruz to the remote and uninhabited Espa\u00f1ola. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/16\/diego-the-tortoise-father-to-hundreds-and-saviour-of-his-species-finally-retires\" target=\"_blank\">Diego the tortoise, father to hundreds and saviour of his species, finally retires<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant tortoise, whose reproductive efforts almost single-handedly saved his species, has been moved to an uninhabited islandDiego, the giant Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise whose tireless efforts are credited with almost single-handedly saving his once-threatened species, has been put out to pasture on his native island after decades of breeding in captivity, Ecuador\u2019s [&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-148402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148402","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=148402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}