{"id":1383467,"date":"2023-12-10T17:38:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T17:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=fe43f96ddbf5212540aafe5f00ac52f1"},"modified":"2023-12-10T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T17:38:51","slug":"elephant-seal-deaths-in-antarctica-raise-fears-of-avian-flu-threatening-penguin-colonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/10\/elephant-seal-deaths-in-antarctica-raise-fears-of-avian-flu-threatening-penguin-colonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Seal Deaths in Antarctica Raise Fears of Avian Flu Threatening Penguin Colonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a further red flag for penguin populations in Antarctica, a new report reveals that hundreds of elephants seals have been found dead. While on the surface the two trends may seem unrelated, the chair of the Antarctic Wildlife Health Network, Dr. Meagan Dewar, told The Guardian on Friday that &ldquo;at some sites we&rsquo;ve had mass mortalities, where we are getting into the hundreds&rdquo; when it comes to...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/elephant-seal-deaths-in-antarctica-raise-fears-of-avian-flu-threatening-penguin-colonies\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/elephant-seal-deaths-in-antarctica-raise-fears-of-avian-flu-threatening-penguin-colonies\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spread of avian flu in Antarctica has already claimed over 500,000 seabirds and 20,000 sea lions in Chile and Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67502,71993,34057,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383468,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383467\/revisions\/1383468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}