{"id":3802,"date":"2020-01-10T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2020-01-10T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:07:49","slug":"actually-thats-one-billion-animals-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=3802","title":{"rendered":"Actually, that&#8217;s one billion animals killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And even those who survive may have no habitat to return to. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2020\/01\/09\/australia-fire-animals-killed\/\">the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A billion animals have been caught in Australia\u2019s fires. Some may go extinct.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Some of the rarest species on Earth are threatened by fires scorching their habitats, scientists warn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;More than 1 billion mammals, birds and reptiles nationwide \u2014 some of them found nowhere else on Earth \u2014 may have been affected or killed by the fires sweeping across Australia, according to a University of Sydney estimate. The potential toll is far greater when other types of animals are included.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not just talking about koalas \u2014 we\u2019re talking mammals, birds, plants, fungi, insects, other invertebrates, amphibians, and bacteria and microorganisms that are critical to these systems,\u201d said Manu Saunders, a research fellow and insect ecologist at the University of New England in Armidale.<\/p>\n<p>Individual animals might survive, but when their habitat is gone, \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d Saunders said. \u201cThey\u2019ll die anyway.\u201d&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And even those who survive may have no habitat to return to. From the Washington Post: A billion animals have been caught in Australia\u2019s fires. Some may go extinct. Some of the rarest species on Earth are threatened by fires scorching their habitats, scientists warn. &#8230;More than 1 billion mammals, birds and reptiles nationwide \u2014 some of them found nowhere else on Earth \u2014 may have been affected or killed by the fires sweeping across Australia, according to a University of Sydney estimate. The potential toll is far greater when other types of animals are included. \u201cWe\u2019re not just talking <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=3802\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[176,25,11,37],"tags":[201,111,202,94],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-environment","category-international","category-wildlife","tag-australia","tag-climate","tag-fires","tag-wildlife-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-Zk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}