{"id":900,"date":"2011-03-10T12:17:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=900"},"modified":"2011-03-10T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T16:17:32","slug":"from-the-ecolympics-blog-extinctions-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/03\/10\/from-the-ecolympics-blog-extinctions-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Ecolympics blog: Extinctions in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The baiji, or Yangtze Dolphin, has been declared functionally extinct.<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s hard to believe that extinction is happening right before our eyes<\/a>. There are five primary causes: habitat fragmentation, pollution, introduction of invasive species, overexploitation and climate change.<\/p>\n

Here is a list of ten species<\/a> that have been declared extinct so far this century. These are masterpieces of nature that we can no longer enjoy. We are running the Ecolympics<\/a> (registration begins on March 21) to raise awareness of exactly this problem. The same information is presented, with a stirring soundtrack and more photos, in the video below, produced by the MotherNatureChannel:<\/p>\n

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Both of these need to be updated to include the Eastern Cougar<\/a>, declared extinct this year, though it’s last confirmed sighting was in Maine in 1938. You can also find a timeline of extinctions on Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The entry above, written by Prof. Daniel Hudon<\/a>, was cross-posted from the Ecolympics group blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to believe that extinction is happening right before our eyes. There are five primary causes: habitat fragmentation, pollution, introduction of invasive species, overexploitation and climate change. Here is a list of ten species that have been declared extinct so far this century. These are masterpieces of nature that we can no longer enjoy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5249,5248,4910,4907,5247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}