{"id":1077,"date":"2012-09-26T20:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T20:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2012-09-26T20:38:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T20:38:34","slug":"the-search-for-invasive-alien-species-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/26\/the-search-for-invasive-alien-species-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Lucia: The Search for Invasive Alien Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Star-Article.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1078\" title=\"Star Article\" src=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Star-Article-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Star Article\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It is a typical scenario. A man made problem, turning into a major catastrophe or having the\u00a0potential to become one. In the end, a few dedicated \u00a0environmentalists are left to lead efforts at\u00a0picking up pieces and healing the wounds, so that the effects are minimized on the rest of us\u00a0earthlings. The case of the invasive alien species of iguanas brought into Saint Lucia about ten\u00a0years ago is one such scenario. The threat; that they have the potential to cross breed with our\u00a0native iguana and potentially decimate the species, having escaped into the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Star_article1.pdf\">The Search for IAS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a typical scenario. A man made problem, turning into a major catastrophe or having the\u00a0potential to become one. In the end, a few dedicated \u00a0environmentalists are left to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,49,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}