{"id":176759,"date":"2023-11-25T22:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T04:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/adopt-an-axolotl-campaign-launches-in-mexico-to-save-iconic-species"},"modified":"2023-11-25T22:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T04:28:17","slug":"adopt-an-axolotl-campaign-launches-in-mexico-to-save-iconic-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/adopt-an-axolotl-campaign-launches-in-mexico-to-save-iconic-species","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Adopt an axolotl\u2019 campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adopt-an-axolotl-campaign-launches-in-mexico-to-save-iconic-species.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Ecologists from Mexico\u2019s National Autonomous university on Friday relaunched a fundraising campaign to bolster conservation efforts for <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/9c84ba7a0c074dc4bec0e3f24e81feda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">axolotls<\/a>, an iconic, endangered fish-like type of salamander.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, called \u201cAdoptaxolotl,\u201d asks people for as little as 600 pesos (about $35) to virtually adopt one of the tiny \u201cwater monsters.\u201d Virtual adoption comes with live updates on your axolotl\u2019s health. For less, donors can buy one of the creatures a virtual dinner.<\/p>\n<p>In their main habitat the population density of Mexican axolotls (ah-ho-LOH\u2019-tulz) has plummeted 99.5% in under two decades, according to scientists behind the fundraiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Ecologists from Mexico\u2019s National Autonomous university on Friday relaunched a fundraising campaign to bolster conservation efforts for axolotls, an iconic, endangered fish-like type of salamander. The campaign, called \u201cAdoptaxolotl,\u201d asks people for as little as 600 pesos (about $35) to virtually adopt one of the tiny \u201cwater monsters.\u201d Virtual adoption comes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}