{"id":2872,"date":"2014-04-01T12:16:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2019-12-07T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:48:46","slug":"giant-african-snail-closer-to-food-basket-region-trinidad-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/01\/giant-african-snail-closer-to-food-basket-region-trinidad-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant African Snail Closer to \u2018Food Basket\u2019 Region &#8211; Trinidad Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Giant-African-Snail1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Giant-African-Snail1.jpg\" alt=\"Giant African Snail\" class=\"wp-image-78\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During the course of January, over 20,000 Giant African snails were collected in farming districts in Mt Lambert, just north of the Aranguez \u201cfood basket\u201d community.&nbsp;&nbsp;Local authorities had previously successfully contained the aggressive invasive species for more than five years in the Diego Martin area. They are potentially disease-carrying creatures that pose a threat to domestic agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was revealed yesterday at a CABI International workshop on Invasive Alien Species (IAS) by Ministry of Food Production entomologist, Allan Balfour.&nbsp;There was also evidence that the pest had also made its way to Moka Heights in Maraval, where 266 snails were collected by the end of February.&nbsp;Balfour said the relocation of landfill rubble and the movement of other material out of the Diego Martin \u201ccontainment zone\u201d was largely responsible for the breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more on this in the Trinidad Guardian article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2014-04-01\/giant-african-snail-closer-%E2%80%98food-basket%E2%80%99-region\">Giant African Snail Closer to \u2018Food Basket\u2019 Region<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/comic-1-april-02_0.png\" alt=\"comic 1 april 02_0\" class=\"wp-image-2961\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Featured Image: Trinidad Guardian (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/comic\/public\/comic\/comic%201%20april%2002_0.png?itok=3yySWEnW \">Comic April 2002<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the course of January, over 20,000 Giant African snails were collected in farming districts in Mt Lambert, just north of the Aranguez \u201cfood basket\u201d community.&nbsp;&nbsp;Local authorities had previously successfully [&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":[15,46],"tags":[52],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872"}],"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=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13500,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/13500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}