{"id":28791,"date":"2018-02-18T01:05:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T00:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/18\/should-we-give-up-half-of-the-earth-to-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T01:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T00:05:29","slug":"should-we-give-up-half-of-the-earth-to-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=28791","title":{"rendered":"Should we give up half of the Earth to wildlife?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Populations of all kinds of wildlife are declining at alarming speed. One radical solution is to make 50% of the planet a nature reserveThe orangutan is one of our planet\u2019s most distinctive and intelligent creatures. It has been observed using primitive tools, such as the branch of a tree, to hunt food, and is capable of complex social behaviour. Orangutans also played a special role in humanity\u2019s own intellectual history when, in the 19th century, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, co-developers of the theory of natural selection, used observations of them to hone their ideas about evolution.But humanity has not repaid orangutans with kindness. The numbers of these distinctive, red-maned primates are now plummeting thanks to our destruction of their habitats and illegal hunting of the species. Last week, an international study revealed that its population in Borneo, the animal\u2019s last main stronghold, now stands at between 70,000 and 100,000, less than half of what it was in 1995. \u201cI expected to see a fairly steep decline, but I did not anticipate it would be this large,\u201d said one of the study\u2019s co-authors, Serge Wich of Liverpool John Moores University. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/feb\/18\/should-we-give-half-planet-earth-wildlife-nature-reserve\" target=\"_blank\">Should we give up half of the Earth to wildlife?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Populations of all kinds of wildlife are declining at alarming speed. One radical solution is to make 50% of the planet a nature reserveThe orangutan is one of our planet\u2019s most distinctive and intelligent creatures. It has been observed using primitive tools, such as the branch of a tree, to [&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-28791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28791","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=28791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}