{"id":324992,"date":"2025-12-04T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324992\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:38:07","slug":"showing-humanity-to-endangered-north-atlantic-right-whales-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324992\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing humanity to endangered North Atlantic right whales pays off"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the seventh and final story in a series<\/a> on Canada-U.S. cross-border measures to protect North Atlantic right whales.<\/p>\n

North Atlantic right whales are teetering dangerously close to functional extinction \u2013 the point at which there are too few animals to recover \u2013 yet they are dying from known problems with known solutions. <\/p>\n

Researchers know what the risks are: mostly fishing gear entanglements<\/a> and vessel strikes<\/a>, but also ocean noise pollution caused by human activity and climate change<\/a> shifting where the whales feed. Policy makers know what to do: Remove fishing lines to reduce the risk of entanglement, reroute and slow vessels, and implement these protections wherever the whales travel.<\/p>\n

Yet despite this knowledge, only 384<\/a> North Atlantic right whales remain, including 72 mothers<\/a>. While these numbers represent slow growth<\/a> in recent years, the population is a fraction of historic abundance.<\/p>\n

The gap between knowing and doing has frustrated scientists for decades. \u201cWe\u2019re trained to get the facts, show the facts, prove with the facts,\u201d says Nadine Lysiak, a wildlife and ocean health research scientist at the New England Aquarium\u2019s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life. \u201cBut I just don\u2019t think we live in a society where that matters as much as we want it to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael J. Moore, a veterinary scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, puts it more bluntly: \u201cThe bottom line is the bottom line: It\u2019s all about money.\u201d While a \u201cconservation lobby\u201d pushes for measures to reduce whale deaths, Dr. Moore says a stronger \u201cconsumer lobby unintentionally is pushing exactly the opposite direction. They want to have more ships, faster ships, more deliveries and more seafood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

‘There has to be a fundamental change’ in how we view North Atlantic right whales, says Michael J. Moore from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.Lauren Owens Lambert\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n

Yet public opinion offers hope. A 2024 Ipsos poll<\/a> of 1,053 Americans, commissioned by Oceana, an international ocean conservation organization, found that 86 per cent of U.S. voters believe right whales should be protected from human-caused threats. In Canada, a 2019 unpublished Abacus Data survey of 1,850 Canadians, commissioned by Oceana Canada, found that despite 68 per cent of respondents knowing nothing about right whales, 96 per cent said it was important that the government of Canada protect them. <\/p>\n

The poll findings suggest that the disconnect is not about public interest \u2013 it\u2019s about translating that into meaningful change. <\/p>\n

The gap between knowing and doing has been a throughline of the Entangled series. Over the past year, supported by the Pulitzer Center\u2019s Ocean Reporting Network, The Globe investigated the plight of North Atlantic right whales \u2013 drawing on more than 60 scientific studies, government reports and datasets, nearly 50 interviews with scientists, policy makers, fishers and advocates, and records tracking 32 individual whales. The series examined the threats \u2013 entanglements<\/a>, vessel strikes<\/a>, habitat shifts<\/a> and ocean noise<\/a> \u2013 and the policies<\/a> to address them. Now, as the series closes, we return to where we began: the people<\/a> working to change the outcome.<\/p>\n

The Globe spoke to six people \u2013 including scientists, educators and rescue organizers \u2013 who have taken up action to protect the right whale to understand what compels them and what it will take to close the implementation gap. <\/p>\n

\t\t<\/p>\n

Right whale<\/p>\n

critical habitat <\/p>\n

area<\/p>\n

North Atlantic <\/p>\n

right whale <\/p>\n

Lifespan: Unknown; <\/p>\n

likely >70 years, but <\/p>\n

rarely >45 years due <\/p>\n

to human activity <\/p>\n

Diet: Zooplankton (copepods) <\/p>\n

Range: U.S.-Canada Eastern <\/p>\n

seaboard; occasionally <\/p>\n

elsewhere in the <\/p>\n

North Atlantic<\/p>\n

Broad, black<\/p>\n

smooth-<\/p>\n

edged fluke<\/p>\n

Callosities<\/p>\n

(cornified skin)<\/p>\n

\t\t<\/p>\n

Right whale<\/p>\n

critical habitat <\/p>\n

area<\/p>\n

North Atlantic <\/p>\n

right whale <\/p>\n

Lifespan: Unknown; <\/p>\n

likely >70 years, but <\/p>\n

rarely >45 years due <\/p>\n

to human activity <\/p>\n

Diet: Zooplankton (copepods) <\/p>\n

Range: U.S.-Canada Eastern <\/p>\n

seaboard; occasionally <\/p>\n

elsewhere in the <\/p>\n

North Atlantic<\/p>\n

Broad, black<\/p>\n

smooth-<\/p>\n

edged fluke<\/p>\n

Callosities<\/p>\n

(cornified skin)<\/p>\n

\t\t<\/p>\n

Right whale<\/p>\n

critical habitat <\/p>\n

area<\/p>\n

North Atlantic <\/p>\n

right whale <\/p>\n

Lifespan: Unknown; <\/p>\n

likely >70 years, but <\/p>\n

rarely >45 years due <\/p>\n

to human activity <\/p>\n

Diet: Zooplankton (copepods) <\/p>\n

Range: U.S.-Canada Eastern <\/p>\n

seaboard; occasionally <\/p>\n

elsewhere in the <\/p>\n

North Atlantic<\/p>\n

Broad, black<\/p>\n

smooth-<\/p>\n

edged fluke<\/p>\n

Callosities<\/p>\n

(cornified skin)<\/p>\n

1. See the whales as relatives<\/p>\n

Bradford Lopes of the Aquinnah W\u00f4pan\u00e2ak tribe in Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Mass., draws on oral traditions that tell of Moshup, a benevolent giant who transformed his children into killer whales to protect them from the harm of settlers. <\/p>\n

For W\u00f4pan\u00e2ak people, right whales aren\u2019t just endangered animals \u2013 they\u2019re family. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is devastating in a way that I struggle to explain,\u201d Mr. Lopes says. \u201cIt\u2019s no different than losing your own family. It\u2019s heartbreaking. Because they\u2019re our cousins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, Mr. Lopes held a workshop on the W\u00f4pan\u00e2ak\u2019s connection to the whales at the North Atlantic Right Whales Consortium, the largest gathering of right whale researchers. <\/p>\n

The W\u00f4pan\u00e2ak have fought to remain in their homelands despite centuries of displacement and cultural erasure. \u201cWhen I see their story, I see a story that we not only know spiritually, but we know historically.\u201d <\/p>\n

The parallel runs deep. \u201cThis is something that we\u2019ve experienced with W\u00f4pan\u00e2ak people in lots of ways. I can relate to that. There\u2019s a very visceral kind of relation there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Bradford Lopes is a citizen of the Aquinnah W\u00f4pan\u00e2ak. Their ancestors have stories of how Moshup the giant shaped Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. (called Noepe in W\u00f4pan\u00e2ak) \u2013 where Mr. Lopes stands at the Aquinnah Cliffs \u2013 and taught them to fish and hunt whales.Lauren Owens Lambert\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n

But Mr. Lopes also finds hope in the whales\u2019 persistence. \u201cThe other thing I see reflected is their continuance, this fight, this spirit, about not disappearing from their home waters and to hang on.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Mr. Lopes told The Globe in April when discussing one of last season\u2019s mothers, Nauset (known under the identification code #2413<\/a> in the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog<\/a>): \u201cI see these mothers as I see our own mothers. I see our grandmothers, and I see that fight,\u201d he said. \u201cThe reason why we\u2019re still here as W\u00f4pan\u00e2ak people is our women \u2013 the strength they\u2019ve had and the fight they\u2019ve had, but also the vision they\u2019ve had.\u201d<\/p>\n

This world view \u2013 whales as relatives rather than resources \u2013 represents what Dr. Moore calls the \u201conly hope\u201d for the species. \u201cThere has to be a fundamental change in how we view these animals,\u201d Dr. Moore argues. <\/p>\n

2. Start young and stay curious<\/p>\n

In the small coastal town of Castine, Maine, middle school science teacher Bill McWeeny posed a simple question to his students in 2004: \u201cHow\u2019d you like to help a really big animal?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI introduced them to the right whales,\u201d Mr. McWeeny recalls. \u201cAnd that was that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. McWeeny\u2019s teaching philosophy is built on experience rather than textbooks. He brought researchers into the classroom and took his students \u2013 who called themselves \u201cThe Calvineers\u201d after Calvin (#2223<\/a>) the right whale \u2013 to scientific conferences.<\/p>\n

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Calvin (#2223), namesake of the Calvineers, has survived eight entanglements and had four calves.Pam Snyder\/New England Aquarium<\/p>\n

For student Molly McEntee, one of the first Calvineers, the pivotal moment came on a whale-watching trip to the Bay of Fundy in Grade 8. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d already spent two years talking about them and learning about them, and it was just really exciting to see them in real life,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Dr. McEntee is now a marine biologist studying elephant seals in California.<\/p>\n

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Molly McEntee has kept up her studies of ocean life since her time as a Calvineer. This photo is from 2018 field work studying dolphins in Western Australia.Supplied<\/p>\n

The Calvineers didn\u2019t just study whales \u2013 they took action. \u201cOnce we had the facts like Calvin\u2019s mother was killed by a ship, then we could advocate for changing shipping lanes,\u201d Mr. McWeeny says. (Advocacy had worked before: As The Globe reported in June<\/a>, Transport Canada rerouted Bay of Fundy vessel traffic around the Grand Manan Basin in 2003, marking the first time in International Maritime Organization history that shipping lanes were moved to protect a marine mammal species.) <\/p>\n

The students wrote letters to lawmakers, their youth giving them unique power as messengers. \u201cYou get a bunch of kids up there who have done their homework, who do not have the agenda that adults have, and they\u2019re saying all the same conservation messages \u2013 it just hits different,\u201d Dr. McEntee says.<\/p>\n

Twenty years on, the legacy extends far beyond the few students who took up ocean conservation vocations. \u201cThis small group of kids at this small school is, over the years, accumulating into a lot of people in the state who really know more about this than most adults,\u201d Dr. McEntee says.<\/p>\n

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Amadi Afua Sefah-Twerefour, a doctoral student in South Carolina, studied how the news media cover right whales, to see what narratives have the best chance of changing their fate.Lauren Owens Lambert\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n

3. Understand that news media shapes policy<\/p>\n

As a PhD student at the University of South Carolina, Amadi Afua Sefah-Twerefour initially planned to study how risks to North Atlantic right whales differ across their various habitats, having previously studied oceanography and fisheries in her home country of Ghana, and ocean engineering in South Korea. But as she dug deeper into her research, she realized something crucial was missing. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf the main risk is from human activities, then there\u2019s a whole new side to this \u2013 what compels social change?\u201d she asks. That realization led her to pivot to analyzing how news coverage shapes public understanding and policy response.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand the facts. We are still learning a lot more about the species. But we realize there\u2019s still a disconnect in our efforts and how effective they are,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Ms. Sefah-Twerefour\u2019s research, the findings of which are not yet published but currently in peer review, scraped tens of thousands of news articles since 2000 about right whales globally, creating a database that tracks volume of coverage, how stories are framed and when they appear relative to key policy decisions. <\/p>\n

\u201cEven if there are diverse opinions or people on opposite sides, the media can actually be that connecting agent,\u201d she said, adding that journalism can point to workable solutions.<\/p>\n

Coverage that crosses borders (right whales migrate between U.S. calving grounds and Canadian feeding grounds) while rare, is especially important, Ms. Sefah-Twerefour says. <\/p>\n

\u201cEven if one country is able to be excellent at protecting the species, it eventually is watered down if the other is not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite never having seen a right whale, Ms. Sefah-Twerefour can name individual whales such as Punctuation (#1281<\/a>) and Clipper (#3450<\/a>), both dead \u2013 their stories burned into her memory through repeated news media coverage. One image particularly haunts her: the 2021 calf of Infinity (#3230<\/a>), struck and killed by a vessel off Florida\u2019s coast in February that year. \u201cI keep seeing the images of that calf with marks across the back.\u201d <\/p>\n

4. Bear witness and document the reality<\/p>\n

Nick Hawkins started as a whale-watching tour guide in his 20s on the Bay of Fundy. Now a conservation filmmaker based in Fredericton, he\u2019s spent nearly a decade developing techniques to safely film right whales \u2013 work that resulted in unprecedented footage of a successful disentanglement for Apple TV\u2019s wildlife documentary The Wild Ones, released this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The journey began with a moment Mr. Hawkins cannot forget. In 2019, he got a call that a dead whale, Punctuation (#1281<\/a>), had been towed to a remote beach for necropsy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never seen a whale like that. Despite being around whales for years, there\u2019s a big difference in seeing it out of the water compared to on the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n

Standing next to it, seeing the whale lice still moving, the baleen (the keratin filter-feeding \u201cteeth\u201d in the whale\u2019s mouth), the eye \u2013 \u201cit\u2019s like standing next to this completely alien creature.\u201d That encounter changed his perception. <\/p>\n

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Nick Hawkins, photographing Atlantic salmon underwater in 2021, took a different tack to observe North Atlantic right whales.Juliette Larocque<\/p>\n

Mr. Hawkins recognized early that \u201cthere wasn\u2019t really any high-quality footage of North Atlantic right whales. They live in remote areas. Underwater isn\u2019t an option [because of permits]. And that was a real problem.\u201d Researchers had so far collected footage, but it did not meet the broadcast standards necessary for reaching broad audiences.<\/p>\n

The solution required years of work: buying a boat capable of reaching whales 30 nautical miles offshore, mastering both seamanship and whale behaviour, and lobbying government to acquire species at risk permits in order to document the whales that had never been granted to a filmmaker before. He designed camera systems that could withstand being soaked on a bouncing boat while flying drones and managing audio \u2013 all solo. He also became a trained whale disentangler through the Campobello Whale Rescue Team course<\/a>, a requirement for anyone on the rescue boat.<\/p>\n

It took three summers before all conditions aligned \u2013 finding the whale (the yearling Athena, then known as #5312<\/a>), calm seas and a successful rescue. <\/p>\n

The danger of disentangling a whale is real. \u201cIt\u2019s a scary thing to be that close to an animal that weighs 40 to 80 tonnes, and that animal is distressed and scared, and it does not want you there,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

His drone work proved to have unexpected benefits beyond filming. Flying above the whale, he could tell the rescue team \u201cit\u2019s right there, it\u2019s crossing under the boat, it\u2019s going to port, it\u2019s going to starboard.\u201d This allowed perfect positioning. \u201cIt\u2019s a matter of inches. When that whale comes up, you gun the boat in, the cutter reaches [the line] \u2013 it\u2019s inches that make the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Mr. Hawkins is helping train others to use drones in rescues. \u201cThe drone is one of, if not the most important tool in whale rescue, other than the cutting tool,\u201d he says. But he\u2019s careful about credit: \u201cThe real heroes are the whale rescuers. I\u2019ve been an asset to them. It\u2019s one more tool in the tool box.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. Learn to co-exist \u2013 from setting traps to setting whales free<\/p>\n

When the Atlantic cod fishery collapsed in the early 1990s, Mackie Greene, then only 12, found himself adrift. He had spent his childhood summers fishing the waters around Campobello Island, N.B. \u201cThere were a few boats whale watching around here, so I got a little boat and started myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

For 26 years, Mr. Greene ran whale-watching tours. On the water, he witnessed something troubling \u2013 whales tangled in fishing gear, suffering, with no organized response to help.<\/p>\n

Mr. Greene understood better than most that fishermen were not villains in this story. \u201cThere\u2019s not a fisherman out there that ever wants to catch a whale,\u201d he says. \u201cHe\u2019s losing his gear, he\u2019s losing his catch, he\u2019s going to waste time looking for his gear. It\u2019s just a nightmare for the fishermen to catch a whale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Mackie Greene, middle, works at the Canadian Whale Institute colleagues with rescue and research technician Randy Russell, right, and director of science Moira Brown.Nick Hawkins\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n

Mr. Greene first encountered whale rescue after he was sent by the province to Cape Cod\u2019s Center for Coastal Studies. But he credits his fishing background most \u2013 years of handling rope and reading the water \u2013 for preparing him to rescue whales.<\/p>\n

In 2002, Mr. Greene and fellow fisherman Joseph (Joe) Howlett co-founded the Campobello Whale Rescue Team at the Canadian Whale Institute as volunteers with minimal government support. Their approach stood out: \u201cOur motto has always been fishermen helping fishermen. We\u2019re not there to condemn the fishermen. We\u2019re there to help them,\u201d says Mr. Greene, now the director of whale rescue at the Canadian Whale Institute. <\/p>\n

The emotional rewards made the risks worthwhile: \u201cWhen you set a whale free, there\u2019s just no feeling like it. I always say it feels like you can jump out of the boat and run home.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there was also heartbreak if a rescue attempt fails: \u201cWhen you don\u2019t get a whale disentangled, it\u2019s that long, quiet ride home.\u201d <\/p>\n

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Howlett co-founded the Campobello Whale Rescue Team with Mr. Greene.Courtesy of the International Fund for Animal Welfare<\/p>\n

In 2017, Mr. Howlett, 59, was fatally struck in the head by a right whale\u2019s tail immediately after freeing the female whale (#4123<\/a>) from fishing gear. \u201cJoe\u2019s funeral was the biggest funeral Campobello has ever seen,\u201d Mr. Greene remembers. \u201cThe church was solid full. Everybody loved Joe.\u201d <\/p>\n

After an extensive investigation<\/a>, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans implemented sweeping safety reforms in 2018. Responders who had been volunteers now receive paid positions and insurance coverage. The department also developed national procedures for federal fishery officers during disentanglement operations and created specialized training for marine mammal response teams.<\/p>\n

Today, Mr. Greene is one of only a handful of people in the country who can lead a whale disentanglement. On July 10, 2024, seven years to the day when Mr. Howlett died, the Campobello team successfully disentangled Athena (#5312<\/a>) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence \u2013 the same whale whose rescue Mr. Hawkins filmed.<\/p>\n

The responsibility weighs on Mr. Greene, but also fills him with purpose. \u201cThese whales are so endangered right now, with just 70 breeding females, every one we can save really makes a big difference,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

North Atlantic right whales are one of the species Lydia (Liddy) Clever, 11, seeks to help with her non-profit Save Sea Life. Her home state of Georgia is a valuable calving ground for the species.Lauren Owens Lambert\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n

6. Meet people where they are \u2013 at the marina<\/p>\n

At seven years old, Lydia (Liddy) Clever was fed up with the trash littering the beaches of Tybee Island in Chatham County, Ga. Georgia\u2019s easternmost point, Tybee is a popular destination where beachgoers flock to its white sand shores \u2013 the same shores that serve as critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtles, manatees and the calving grounds for the North Atlantic right whale. <\/p>\n

Liddy repurposed the collected debris from the beach \u2013 plastic bags and other trash \u2013 into braided bracelets<\/a> to keep them out of the ocean. But she realized she could help stop the source of trash before it reached the sea by working with schools<\/a>. She started \u201cTidy Tuesdays\u201d at her elementary school, where half her class would pick up trash during recess one week, and the other half the next. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Liddy, now 11 years old, founded her non-profit, Save Sea Life<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur mission is to educate kids at a young age to love the ocean so that when they get older, they don\u2019t destroy it,\u201d Liddy says.<\/p>\n

In February, 2021, what washed up on Tybee\u2019s shores moved Liddy to expand her mission: a right whale calf, the offspring of Infinity (#3230<\/a>), struck and killed by a recreational vessel. \u201cThat\u2019s when I really started getting into it, because not only big cargo ships are hurting right whales \u2013 small boats hurt them too,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

This past year, Liddy and her mother visited roughly half the marinas in and around Savannah, Ga., to survey boaters about their awareness of right whales. \u201cIt was really awesome to see how many boaters did know about them,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

But her findings also revealed a dangerous gap: While more boaters than expected had heard of the species, few understood how to identify them or what to do if they encountered one. That knowledge gap is particularly perilous in Georgia and northern Florida \u2013 the only known calving grounds for North Atlantic right whales \u2013 where mothers and newborns are most vulnerable to vessel strikes.<\/p>\n

To help close that gap, Liddy is working with local government to distribute educational flyers when boats are registered \u2013 information \u201cto tell them what to look for in the North Atlantic right whale and who to call if they do see one, how to stay away from them,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

Liddy presented her research at this year\u2019s North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium meeting.<\/p>\n

Saving a species is a big job, but as Liddy insists, \u201cNo act is too small and you\u2019re never too young to make a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story is part of a series produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center\u2019s Ocean Reporting Network.<\/p>\n

Entangled: More from this seriesThe Decibel podcast<\/p>\n

Human-made ocean noise is stressful for whales, and researchers are beginning to understand how that hurts their health. Jenn Thornhill Verma spoke with The Decibel<\/a> about the latest science. Subscribe for more episodes.<\/a><\/p>\n

Jenn Thornhill Verma reports<\/p>\n

Can motherhood help North Atlantic right whales to rise again? Latest calving season offers reasons for hope<\/a><\/p>\n

Habitat shifts make right whales harder to track, and to save<\/a><\/p>\n

Fishing industry lags behind in adoption of whale-safe gear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the seventh and final story in a series on Canada-U.S. cross-border measures to protect North Atlantic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,49,48,295,66,5756],"class_list":{"0":"post-324992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-appwebview","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-yesapplenews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}