{"id":19317,"date":"2019-07-18T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/?p=19317"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:40:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:40:14","slug":"unsustainable-fishing-and-hunting-for-bushmeat-driving-iconic-species-to-extinction-iucn-red-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/publication\/unsustainable-fishing-and-hunting-for-bushmeat-driving-iconic-species-to-extinction-iucn-red-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsustainable fishing and hunting for bushmeat driving iconic species to extinction \u2013 IUCN Red List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                        \n        <div id=\"block_6074489f5661b\" class=\"grid-group block  small-12 medium-12 large-offset-2 large-8\">\n\n        <a name=\"\"><\/a>\n\n        <div class=\"grid-group__in\">\n            \n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gland, Switzerland, 18 July 2019 (IUCN) \u2013 Overfishing has pushed two families of rays to the brink of extinction, while hunting for bushmeat and habitat loss have led to the decline of seven primate species, according to the latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color\"><em>Header photo: roloway monkey cercopithecus diana (c) Russell a. Mittermeier<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<p>The update also reveals further evidence of the perilous state of freshwater fishes globally. This is shown by high numbers of species threatened by the loss of free flowing rivers, habitat degradation, pollution and invasive species in Japan and Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block block-container small-12 large-offset-1 large-10\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/news\/species\/201907\/unsustainable-fishing-and-hunting-bushmeat-driving-iconic-species-extinction-iucn-red-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full release on IUCN.org<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[186,194],"class_list":["post-19317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication","tag-national-committee","tag-red-list-of-threatened-species"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61210,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19317\/revisions\/61210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iucn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}