{"id":5129,"date":"2019-09-06T09:52:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"combatting-species-loss-using-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/06\/combatting-species-loss-using-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Combatting Species Loss Using Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By UN\nEnvironment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life on earth has always been marked by periods of\nextinction. 65 million years ago dinosaurs were wiped out, making way for other\nmammals to evolve, while before them the vertebrate species known as the\ntrilobite dominated the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These extinctions were believed to be sudden and caused\nby major climatic disruptions, such as sea level falls, methane eruptions, and\nin some cases collisions with asteroids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now a major extinction event is happening before us due\nnot to any cataclysmic event but an unprecedented and ongoing pressure on the\nenvironment by humans. There an estimated 7.7 billion people today, making us\nthe most populous large mammal on Earth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/combatting-species-loss-using-nature\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Life on earth has always been marked by periods of extinction. 65 million years ago dinosaurs were wiped out, making way for other mammals to evolve, while&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5130,"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-5129","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\/5129","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=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}