{"id":40928,"date":"2025-08-03T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40928\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:33:08","slug":"saving-the-worlds-rarest-crocodile-from-its-bad-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40928\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the world&#8217;s rarest crocodile from its bad reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Bernard Tarun, now a biodiversity expert at the Mabuwaya Foundation, wasn&#8217;t a fan of crocodiles when he started off. The first time he held a Philippine crocodile in his hands, he was bitten. But instead of shunning the creatures, he grew adamant he&#8217;d establish rapport with them, learn how to manage them, and never get bitten again. &#8220;Especially those communities living near the crocodile localities, they already changed their mind,&#8221; says Tarun. &#8220;From &#8216;Oh, you have to kill that one&#8217;, now to &#8216;Okay, don&#8217;t disturb, enjoy watching the crocodile&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernard Tarun, now a biodiversity expert at the Mabuwaya Foundation, wasn&#8217;t a fan of crocodiles when he started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-40928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}