{"id":698487,"date":"2026-05-28T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698487\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:13:10","slug":"these-animals-have-fewer-than-100-left-on-earth-and-their-stories-are-heartbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698487\/","title":{"rendered":"These animals have fewer than 100 left on earth\u2014and their stories are heartbreaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">The kakapo is a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC), the introduction of invasive predators like stoats, cats, and rats nearly wiped them out entirely, dropping their population to just 51 individuals in the 1990s. Thanks to an aggressive, government-led recovery scheme that involves isolating the birds on predator-free islands and monitoring every single egg, their numbers are slowly recovering, though they remain on a knife-edge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The kakapo is a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2837,17645,49,48,295,254563,74840,66,254564],"class_list":["post-698487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-animals","tag-birds","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-fishes","tag-leopards","tag-science","tag-stories-of-wild-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698487","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=698487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}