{"id":2,"date":"2014-03-29T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T08:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-04-02T23:15:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T06:15:29","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"INTRODUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Importance of elephant conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the 1930&#8217;s\/1940&#8217;s there were 3-5 million African elephants ranging across most of the African continent.<\/li>\n<li>Currently there are an estimated 450,000 \u2013 700,000 African elephants left in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Elephant populations are confined to well-protected areas, which form only a fraction of total elephant range.\u00a0Most range states do not have adequate capacity to protect and manage their herds.<\/li>\n<li>Elephant distribution is becoming increasingly fragmented across the continent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0If conservation action is not forthcoming, elephants may become locally extinct in some parts of Africa within 50 years.- WWF (2014)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently African elephants are under the status of &#8220;Vulnerable&#8221; but as ivory demand increases in Asia, populations of African elephants are being threatened by poachers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/openwallpaper.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/african_elephants_are_the_largest.jpg\" width=\"1440\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Importance of elephant conservation In the 1930&#8217;s\/1940&#8217;s there were 3-5 million African elephants ranging across most of the African continent. Currently there are an estimated 450,000 \u2013 700,000 African elephants left in the world. Elephant populations are confined to well-protected areas, which form only a fraction of total elephant range.\u00a0Most range states do not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23861,"featured_media":68,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/corinnedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}