{"id":223642,"date":"2025-10-19T00:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/should-scientists-be-allowed-to-edit-the-genes-of-wild-animals-top-conservation-groups-just-voted-yes"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:07:51","slug":"should-scientists-be-allowed-to-edit-the-genes-of-wild-animals-top-conservation-groups-just-voted-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/should-scientists-be-allowed-to-edit-the-genes-of-wild-animals-top-conservation-groups-just-voted-yes","title":{"rendered":"Should scientists be allowed to edit the genes of wild animals? Top conservation groups just voted yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-scientists-be-allowed-to-edit-the-genes-of-wild-animals-top-conservation-groups-just-voted-yes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She said that the new framework represents a \u201clandmark step,\u201d and that the measure could allow conservationists to consider new ways to address the risks of climate change or test new methods of suppressing disease.<\/p>\n<p>The IUCN \u2014 a large group of conservation organizations, governments and Indigenous groups with more than 1,400 members from about 160 countries \u2014 meets once every four years. It is the world\u2019s largest network of environmental groups and the authority behind the red list, which tracks threatened species and global biodiversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She said that the new framework represents a \u201clandmark step,\u201d and that the measure could allow conservationists to consider new ways to address the risks of climate change or test new methods of suppressing disease. The IUCN \u2014 a large group of conservation organizations, governments and Indigenous groups with more than 1,400 members from about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223642","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}