{"id":89852,"date":"2019-04-23T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/canadian-researchers-warn-of-cascading-impacts-as-bumblebee-species-decline"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:23:41","slug":"canadian-researchers-warn-of-cascading-impacts-as-bumblebee-species-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/canadian-researchers-warn-of-cascading-impacts-as-bumblebee-species-decline","title":{"rendered":"Canadian researchers warn of \u2018cascading impacts\u2019 as bumblebee species decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canadian-researchers-warn-of-cascading-impacts-as-bumblebee-species-decline.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at York University has warned that the American bumblebee is facing imminent extinction from Canada, and this could lead to \u201ccascading impacts\u201d throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The imminent extinction classification is considered the highest and most at-risk classification before extinction.<\/p>\n<p>About 42 of the more than 850 species of bees in Canada are bumblebees \u2014 important pollinators needed to grow crops, including apples, tomatoes, blueberries and legumes, as well as trees, shrubs and wildflowers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/bumblebees-decline-pollinators-1.5106260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at York University has warned that the American bumblebee is facing imminent extinction from Canada, and this could lead to \u201ccascading impacts\u201d throughout the country. The imminent extinction classification is considered the highest and most at-risk classification before extinction. About 42 of the more than 850 species of bees in Canada [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89852","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=89852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}