{"id":14837,"date":"2021-10-01T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=14837"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:47:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T12:47:48","slug":"green-monkeys-in-st-kitts-and-nevis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2021\/10\/01\/green-monkeys-in-st-kitts-and-nevis\/","title":{"rendered":"Green monkeys in St. Kitts and Nevis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In St. Kitts and Nevis, the green monkey or African vervet monkey are not native to the country.  The monkeys over the last three centuries have grown in vast numbers.  These tourist-attracting monkeys have been a part of the culture on the islands for so long local farmers don&#8217;t want to get rid of the monkeys completely, just off their land and under control.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main initiatives of the United National Environment Programme involves tackling invasive species in the Eastern Caribbean as well as to better understand the monkey&#8217;s impact on local biodiversity. The idea for this project is to better understand the impact on local biodiversity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the green monkey problem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-49125580\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In St. Kitts and Nevis, the green monkey or African vervet monkey are not native to the country. The monkeys over the last three centuries have grown in vast numbers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[43],"tags":[218,117,95,122,140,219,139],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14837"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14971,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions\/14971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}