{"id":90321,"date":"2019-05-06T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/catastrophe-as-frances-bird-population-collapses-due-to-pesticides"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:03:01","slug":"catastrophe-as-frances-bird-population-collapses-due-to-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/catastrophe-as-frances-bird-population-collapses-due-to-pesticides","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Catastrophe\u2019 as France\u2019s bird population collapses due to pesticides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/catastrophe-as-frances-bird-population-collapses-due-to-pesticides2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bird populations across the French countryside have fallen by a third over the last decade and a half, researchers have said.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of species have seen their numbers decline, in some cases by two-thirds, the scientists said in a pair of studies \u2013 one national in scope and the other covering a large agricultural region in central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/france\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" class=\"\">France<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation is catastrophic,\u201d said Benoit Fontaine, a conservation biologist at France\u2019s National Museum of Natural History and co-author of one of the studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/21\/catastrophe-as-frances-bird-population-collapses-due-to-pesticides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird populations across the French countryside have fallen by a third over the last decade and a half, researchers have said. Dozens of species have seen their numbers decline, in some cases by two-thirds, the scientists said in a pair of studies \u2013 one national in scope and the other covering a large agricultural region [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90321","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=90321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}