{"id":194826,"date":"2025-10-12T11:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T11:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:47:32","slug":"wildlife-conservation-green-turtles-bounce-back-but-endangered-wildlife-needs-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194826\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife conservation: Green turtles bounce back but endangered wildlife needs help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The green sea turtle, once in serious danger of disappearing, has been saved from the edge of extinction, in what scientists are calling a big win for conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the 1980s, there were so few left that they were added to the endangered species list \u2013 a global warning list for animals at high risk of extinction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, after years of hard work from conservation groups, local communities, and scientists, green turtles are making a comeback. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New information shows their numbers have grown enough that they are no longer considered endangered but instead, are listed in the safest category on the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Nicolas Pilcher from the Marine Research Foundation in Malaysia said: &#8220;It just tells this great story of how people across the planet can come together to turn things around and turn the negative trajectory of turtles into a positive one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And that is amazing. It really is.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The green sea turtle, once in serious danger of disappearing, has been saved from the edge of extinction,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-194826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}