{"id":2676,"date":"2019-05-26T07:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T07:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"what-is-biodiversity-why-its-under-threat-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/26\/what-is-biodiversity-why-its-under-threat-and-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Biodiversity? Why It\u2019s Under Threat and Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong><em><strong>Lorin\nHancock <\/strong><\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction\u2014more than ever before in human history, according to a landmark\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipbes.net\/\"><em>Global<\/em>\u00a0<em>Assessment Report<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/pages\/what-is-biodiversity\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lorin Hancock Around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction\u2014more than ever before in human history, according to a landmark\u00a0Global\u00a0Assessment Report\u00a0by the Intergovernmental Platform on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}