{"id":78118,"date":"2019-01-31T01:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/31\/new-zealand-baffled-after-protected-little-blue-penguins-stolen-from-nests\/"},"modified":"2019-01-31T01:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T00:48:38","slug":"new-zealand-baffled-after-protected-little-blue-penguins-stolen-from-nests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=78118","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand baffled after protected little blue penguins stolen from nests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men wielding a crowbar raid wild nests in Napier, possibly to sell the animals into the illegal wildlife tradeTwo of the world\u2019s smallest and most vulnerable penguins have been stolen in a brazen overnight raid on their nests in New Zealand.Little blue penguins \u2013 or koror\u0101 \u2013 are native to New Zealand and are listed by the Department of Conservation (DoC) as an at-risk, declining population. Little blues are the world\u2019s smallest penguin, and are threatened by common predators such as dogs and cats, urban development on their coastal environment and being hit by cars, boats or caught in nets. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/31\/new-zealand-baffled-after-protected-little-blue-penguins-stolen-from-nests\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand baffled after protected little blue penguins stolen from nests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men wielding a crowbar raid wild nests in Napier, possibly to sell the animals into the illegal wildlife tradeTwo of the world\u2019s smallest and most vulnerable penguins have been stolen in a brazen overnight raid on their nests in New Zealand.Little blue penguins \u2013 or koror\u0101 \u2013 are native [&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-78118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78118","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=78118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}