{"id":6058,"date":"2014-07-10T08:07:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T08:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2014-07-10T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T08:07:52","slug":"save-the-devon-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/07\/10\/save-the-devon-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Devon 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/after-the-badger-cull-is-defra-planning-to-kill-devons-beavers-9405767.html\">Defra<\/a> really plan to remove the three beavers from Devon's\u00a0River Otter and kill them \u2013 or much worse, incarcerate\u00a0them in a zoo? \u00a0Given that these animals have European protection, this is hardly credible \u2013 but then, until recently, neither was the wholesale slaughtering of badgers. \u00a0With all that badger blood on their\u00a0hands already, why would Defra ministers worry about\u00a0three extra\u00a0dead animals \u2013 especially when there is the\u00a0angling lobby to placate and conservative land-owners to keep sweet?<\/p>\n<p>You can sign the '<em>Keep Defra's Hands off the Beavers<\/em>' petition <a href=\"https:\/\/you.38degrees.org.uk\/petitions\/save-the-free-beavers-of-england\">here<\/a>. \u00a0It's easy ...<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Defra really plan to remove the three beavers from Devon's\u00a0River Otter and kill them \u2013 or much worse, incarcerate\u00a0them in a zoo? \u00a0Given that these animals have European protection, this is hardly credible \u2013 but then, until recently, neither...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}