{"id":420,"date":"2008-06-06T11:39:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T11:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2008-06-06T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T11:52:21","slug":"can-we-help-stop-amphibians-croaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/can-we-help-stop-amphibians-croaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we help stop amphibians croaking &#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7438205.stm\">Scientists have discovered<\/a> that a bacteria, which naturally exists on the skin of frogs and other amphibians, serves to protect them from the diseases which have been decimating their populations.<\/p>\n<p>That is good news.  However, it begs the question of how to apply or encourage this bacteria, without letting it get out of hand.  That would be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>It is also an approach symptomatic of feudal command and control thinking. The solution is to rejuvenate the natural habitats.  That means less pollution.  In particular, chemicals, such as agricultural sprays.  And it means turning back the spread of humanity across the planet&#8217;s surface &#8211; less people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that a bacteria, which naturally exists on the skin of frogs and other amphibians, serves to protect them from the diseases which have been decimating their populations. That is good news. However, it begs the question of how to apply or encourage this bacteria, without letting it get out of hand. That &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/can-we-help-stop-amphibians-croaking\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can we help stop amphibians croaking &#8230;?<\/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-420","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-6M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}