{"id":6225,"date":"2015-04-01T06:47:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2015-04-01T06:47:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:47:05","slug":"land-iguanas-to-be-reintroduced-to-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/04\/01\/land-iguanas-to-be-reintroduced-to-surrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Iguanas to be reintroduced to Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Guildford;\u00a0April 1st 2015<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is controversy across\u00a0the home counties today as campaigners begin a fight to reintroduce land iguanas into Surrey. \u00a0Dr Rita-Anne McMurrey-Jones, of the <em>Bring Land Iguanas Back to Britain<\/em>\u00a0 (BLIBB) campaign, said that when Surrey was just a tropical swamp, land iguanas were all over the place. \u00a0\"<em>It's high time to reintroduce them<\/em>\", she said, adding:\u00a0\"<em>It's well known that iguanas thrive on\u00a0golf courses, and Surrey has a lot of these<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>McMurrey-Jones stressed the educational potential of this move. \u00a0\"<em>Forget<\/em> <em>forest schools<\/em>\", she said,\u00a0\"<em>When this goes ahead, it's golf course schools that will be all the rage<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>Surrey County Council's <em>Director of Wildlife and Spatial Planning (angling &amp; golf)<\/em>, Imelda\u00a0Dougthwaite BA, said that, although this was the first she'd heard of the idea, she doubted that elected members would approve.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"<em>They spend a lot of time on golf courses, you know<\/em>.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/01\/746fbf89-e25a-4bec-9bbb-2841a4ee964f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6226\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/01\/746fbf89-e25a-4bec-9bbb-2841a4ee964f.jpg\" alt=\"746fbf89-e25a-4bec-9bbb-2841a4ee964f\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/01\/746fbf89-e25a-4bec-9bbb-2841a4ee964f.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/01\/746fbf89-e25a-4bec-9bbb-2841a4ee964f-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guildford;\u00a0April 1st 2015 There is controversy across\u00a0the home counties today as campaigners begin a fight to reintroduce land iguanas into Surrey. \u00a0Dr Rita-Anne McMurrey-Jones, of the Bring Land Iguanas Back to Britain\u00a0 (BLIBB) campaign, said that when Surrey was just...<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/6225","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=6225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}