{"id":82340,"date":"2025-10-15T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82340\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:44:15","slug":"fragile-river-of-life-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82340\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragile River of Life | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Szabo&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Szabo (USA) watches longnose gars spawn in a crystal-clear Florida river.<\/p>\n<p>Wrapping his feet around a drowned tree, Isaac photographed this female longnose gar with several males during the mating season.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of the turtle was, for Isaac, the \u201cicing on the cake\u201d, as it \u201cgives a sense of the whole ecosystem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This river is one of more than 1,000 waterways fed by freshwater springs renowned for their clearness.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s vital to maintain the aquifers that supply these springs. Wildlife such as manatees rely on them, but they also provide drinking water to nearly half of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Szabo&#8217;s Image Isaac Szabo (USA) watches longnose gars spawn in a crystal-clear Florida river. Wrapping his feet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,3741,82,263,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":["post-82340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82340","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=82340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}