{"id":28895,"date":"2021-12-06T07:51:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T07:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=28895"},"modified":"2021-12-06T07:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T07:51:57","slug":"in-taiwan-officials-and-environmentalists-are-scrambling-to-stop-a-cane-toad-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=28895","title":{"rendered":"In Taiwan, officials and environmentalists are scrambling to stop a cane toad invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostToads are a symbol of prosperity and good fortune in Taiwan, but the unexpected discovery of an invasive species has officials and environmentalists scrambling to contain their spread.With flashlights in hand and shielded by protective gloves, dozens of volunteers from the Taiwan Amphibian Conservation Society worked through the night searching rice fields and vegetable plots for their quarry \u2013 the cane toad.There should be no reason for these large and highly toxic amphibians to exist in\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3158622\/taiwan-officials-and-environmentalists-are-scrambling-stop-cane?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostToads are a symbol of prosperity and good fortune in Taiwan, but the unexpected discovery of an invasive species has officials and environmentalists scrambling&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}