{"id":1989,"date":"2008-04-08T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/04\/08\/save-the-great-cormorants-of-l\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T19:19:44","slug":"save-the-great-cormorants-of-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/save-the-great-cormorants-of-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Great Cormorants of Lake Constance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-a0a38ac33e274236cb5dd15b508fe566-cormorant.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-a0a38ac33e274236cb5dd15b508fe566-cormorant.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU &#8211; BirdLife in Germany) is protesting vehemently against the planned destruction of Lake Constance&#8217;s only colony of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo.&#8221;It is hard to believe that Freiburg local authority intends to commit such a destructive act, not only in a National Nature Reserve but especially within a European Special Protected Area (SPA)&#8221;, said Dr Andre Baumann (chairman &#8211; NABU Baden-W\u00c3\u00bcrttemberg). &#8220;This persecution of Great Cormorants not only contradicts common sense, it also contravenes European bird protection legislation and is morally unjustifiable&#8221;. NABU is protesting to the authorities in Freiburg against the planned operations and has started an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabu-bw.de\/\">online petition.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/news\/news\/2008\/04\/cormorant_nabu.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU &#8211; BirdLife in Germany) is protesting vehemently against the planned destruction of Lake Constance&#8217;s only colony of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo.&#8221;It is hard to believe that Freiburg local authority intends to commit such a destructive act, not only in a National Nature Reserve but especially within a European Special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/save-the-great-cormorants-of-l\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Save the Great Cormorants of Lake Constance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27,239],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-w5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}