{"id":3048,"date":"2022-07-26T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T05:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2022-07-26T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T05:55:52","slug":"threatened-species-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"Threatened Species in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in July, the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/soe.environment.gov.au\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">State of Environment Report<\/a> was released by the Federal Government.  The report makes for disturbing, although unsurprising, reading. Almost every indicator used to assess the health of Australia\u2019s land and water paints the picture of a poor and declining country: an extinction crisis, limited access to drinking water, increasing weather extremes caused by climate change and insufficient funding to address the problems. <\/p>\n<p>The release of the report has generated much conversation and media interest in many aspects of Australia&#8217;s environment and the indicators of how we are faring. <\/p>\n<p>This article with a focus on threatened fauna species appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday 23rd July:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/conservation\/what-the-bald-eagle-and-a-tiny-bat-can-tell-us-about-australia-s-broken-system-for-protecting-nature-20220721-p5b3k1.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">What the bald eagle and a tiny bat can tell us about Australia\u2019s broken system for protecting nature<\/a><\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/conservation\/what-the-bald-eagle-and-a-tiny-bat-can-tell-us-about-australia-s-broken-system-for-protecting-nature-20220721-p5b3k1.html<\/p>\n<p><cite>By Nick O&#8217;Malley <\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The release of the SoE report has also brought into focus the actions that need to happen to improve our environmental outcomes. Read more here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/conservation\/to-save-australia-s-precious-environment-we-must-do-these-five-things-20220720-p5b31z.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">State of Environment report: Australia\u2019s five steps to reversing disaster (smh.com.au)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in July, the 2021 State of Environment Report was released by the Federal Government. The report makes for disturbing, although unsurprising, reading. Almost every indicator used to assess the health of Australia\u2019s land and water paints the picture of a poor and declining country: an extinction crisis, limited access to drinking water, increasing weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8,7,247],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}