{"id":337,"date":"2009-09-05T06:42:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T14:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2009-09-05T06:42:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T14:42:31","slug":"mammals-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/05\/mammals-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"mammals beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/\">The Red List of Threatened Species <\/a> (?). The gang has spent decades tracking species and habitats in an effort to catalog what&#8217;s happening out yonder in the Big Outside. And what they found isn&#8217;t much fun. <\/p>\n<p>Now, as reported by the erudite BBC, the Red Listers have a new pronouncement to add to an already troubled picture of our natural world &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7651981.stm\"> &#8220;At least 25% of the world&#8217;s mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not that we should be shocked by such news; it&#8217;s just another piece of flotsam in a sea of dismal data. But the interesting tidbit is that &#8220;The biggest threat to mammals is loss of habitat, including deforestation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why is that of note? Because, unlike most stupid human tricks, we can do something about habitat destruction and tree whacking. Of course, the &#8220;environmental movement&#8221; currently appears myopically focused on one subject &#8211; global warming. Which is understandable, in that fund raisers know where the butter meets the bread. <\/p>\n<p>Suggested reading &#8211; anything by John Muir, Aldo, Leopold, <a href=\"http:\/\/biology.cos.ucf.edu\/faculty_details.php?id=83\">Reed Noss  <\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Shepard\">Paul Shepard. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard of the The Red List of Threatened Species (?). The gang has spent decades tracking species and habitats in an effort to catalog what&#8217;s happening out yonder in the Big Outside. And what they found isn&#8217;t much fun. Now, as reported by the erudite BBC, the Red Listers have a new pronouncement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}