{"id":200615,"date":"2025-10-04T01:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T01:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:26:26","slug":"new-study-shows-feral-burros-are-devastating-sonoran-desert-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200615\/","title":{"rendered":"New study shows feral burros are devastating Sonoran Desert plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists with the Arizona Game and Fish Department have released a new study showing feral burros are devastating key plant species in the Sonoran Desert, threatening saguaros and other native wildlife. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers found areas with burros had 30% less ground cover and far fewer young saguaros, which depend on palo verde and ironwood trees for protection. <\/p>\n<p>With Arizona\u2019s burro population estimated at more than 10,000\u2014well above the 1,400 deemed sustainable\u2014the findings raise fresh concerns about long-term ecological damage and federal management of the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in qualifying and adopting a burro can check out more information <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/programs\/wild-horse-and-burro\/adoption-and-sales\/how-to-adopt-or-purchase#:~:text=The%20BLM%20maintains%20a%20network,site%20adoption%20event%20near%20you\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story in the video player above. <\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756673783_813_liveplayerbanner1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biologists with the Arizona Game and Fish Department have released a new study showing feral burros are devastating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-200615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}