{"id":404,"date":"2008-05-16T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T09:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2008-05-16T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T09:28:07","slug":"watching-life-disintegrate-species-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/watching-life-disintegrate-species-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching life disintegrate &#8211; species extinction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another depressing report about humanity&#8217;s greedy footprint: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7403989.stm\">Wildlife Populations Plummeting<\/a>.  The Zoological Society reports continuing (accelerating) species extinction on land and in water.<\/p>\n<p>Between a quarter and a third of the world&#8217;s wildlife has been lost since 1970. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%. Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year, and one of the &#8220;great extinction episodes&#8221; in the Earth&#8217;s history is under way. Pollution, farming and urban expansion, over-fishing and hunting are blamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another depressing report about humanity&#8217;s greedy footprint: Wildlife Populations Plummeting. The Zoological Society reports continuing (accelerating) species extinction on land and in water. Between a quarter and a third of the world&#8217;s wildlife has been lost since 1970. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%. Humans are wiping &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/watching-life-disintegrate-species-extinction\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watching life disintegrate &#8211; species extinction.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-6w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}