{"id":623631,"date":"2026-10-07T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623631\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:52:11","slug":"conservation-mascot-nat-geo-photo-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623631\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Mascot | Nat Geo Photo of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing a costume of the near-threatened Eurasian curlew, conservationist Matt Trevelyan opens a gate on a farm as he strolls through the Nidderdale valley in northern England. Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Morgan Heim took this image of Trevelyan, who in recent years has worn his handcrafted getup on a 53-mile hike\u2014and even to London\u2019s Parliament\u2014to raise awareness about the bird\u2019s vanishing habitat in the English moors. \u201cHe believes in spectacle for conservation,\u201d says Heim. This photo is featured in the &#8220;In Focus&#8221; series in the October 2026 issue of National Geographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wearing a costume of the near-threatened Eurasian curlew, conservationist Matt Trevelyan opens a gate on a farm as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-623631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}