{"id":586342,"date":"2026-08-07T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586342\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:44:12","slug":"fears-avian-flu-outbreak-could-wipe-out-new-zealands-rare-birds-channel-4-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586342\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears avian flu outbreak could wipe out New Zealand\u2019s rare birds \u2013 Channel 4 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand has been rushing to vaccinate rare and endangered birds from avian flu as cases begin spreading around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Australia confirmed its first case of avian flu in June and it wasn\u2019t long before the H5N1 virus reached wild birds in New Zealand too.<\/p>\n<p>Conservationists fear that some species could be wiped out altogether if it takes hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand has been rushing to vaccinate rare and endangered birds from avian flu as cases begin spreading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-586342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}