{"id":504,"date":"2008-09-22T08:21:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T08:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2008-09-22T08:21:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T08:21:26","slug":"more-life-destroyed-by-humanitys-footprint-2008-worlds-birds-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/more-life-destroyed-by-humanitys-footprint-2008-worlds-birds-report\/","title":{"rendered":"More life destroyed by humanity&#8217;s footprint &#8211; 2008 World&#8217;s Birds Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfo.org\/sowb\/default.php?r=sowbhome\"> State of the World&#8217;s Birds 2008 report<\/a>, the first update since 2004, found that familiar species are declining in all parts of the world. In Europe, an analysis of 124 species over a 26-year period revealed that 56 species had declined in 20 countries. Farmland birds were worst affected, with the number of European turtle-doves <em>(Streptopelia turtur)<\/em> falling by 79%.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/news\/news\/2008\/09\/SOWB_global.html\">Bird Life International report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7622904.stm\">BBC report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of the World&#8217;s Birds 2008 report, the first update since 2004, found that familiar species are declining in all parts of the world. In Europe, an analysis of 124 species over a 26-year period revealed that 56 species had declined in 20 countries. Farmland birds were worst affected, with the number of European &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/more-life-destroyed-by-humanitys-footprint-2008-worlds-birds-report\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More life destroyed by humanity&#8217;s footprint &#8211; 2008 World&#8217;s Birds Report.<\/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-504","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-88","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}