{"id":4661,"date":"2014-05-15T23:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2019-12-05T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:39:10","slug":"black-river-pilot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/15\/black-river-pilot-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Black River Pilot Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BlackRiverPilotFinal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BlackRiverPilotFinal-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"BlackRiverPilotFinal\" class=\"wp-image-4662\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Black River morass is the largest freshwater wetland ecosystem in Jamaica and the&nbsp;second largest in the Caribbean. It is a biologically diverse and extremely complex&nbsp;natural wetland ecosystem that supports a large number of plants, animals and natural&nbsp;communities. The Morass support high levels of endemic species which are severely&nbsp;threatened by anthropogenic disturbance owing to their relatively small size and&nbsp;accessibility to human encroachment. In recognition of its value as a reservoir of endemic&nbsp;biodiversity, and its contribution to the livelihoods of local communities, the Black River&nbsp;morass will be designated as a protected area in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Black-River-Pilot-Final-Report-2014.pdf\">Black River Pilot Final Report 2014<\/a>&nbsp;(PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black River morass is the largest freshwater wetland ecosystem in Jamaica and the&nbsp;second largest in the Caribbean. It is a biologically diverse and extremely complex&nbsp;natural wetland ecosystem that supports [&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":[14,39,58],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661"}],"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=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13388,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions\/13388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}