{"id":1393,"date":"2020-10-05T06:52:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2020-10-05T06:52:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:52:46","slug":"tasmanian-devils-reintroduced-to-mainland-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/10\/05\/tasmanian-devils-reintroduced-to-mainland-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Devils Reintroduced to Mainland Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1394\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-05-at-7.51.13-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1158\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-05-at-7.51.13-AM.png 1158w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-05-at-7.51.13-AM-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-05-at-7.51.13-AM-768x905.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-05-at-7.51.13-AM-869x1024.png 869w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1158px) 100vw, 1158px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservationists working with disease-free <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/tasmanian-devils\">Tasmanian devils<\/a> have taken the next step in what they hope will be a \u201crewilding\u201d project that could eventually see the species reintroduced to the Australian mainland.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 devils, free of devil facial tumour disease, have been released into a 500ha, predator-free sanctuary in the Barrington Tops national park, north of Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Aussie Ark will use tracking devices and camera traps to monitor how the animals fare in their new environment and consider whether the release of devils into a wild environment could help conservation.<\/p>\n<p>If the devils breed and thrive in the sanctuary, another group of animals will be released into a second predator-free area in a year\u2019s time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/oct\/05\/tasmanian-devils-released-into-sanctuary-north-of-sydney-in-step-towards-rewilding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservationists working with disease-free Tasmanian devils have taken the next step in what they hope will be a \u201crewilding\u201d project that could eventually see the species reintroduced to the Australian mainland. About 30 devils, free of devil facial tumour disease, <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/10\/05\/tasmanian-devils-reintroduced-to-mainland-australia\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}