{"id":320245,"date":"2017-05-24T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3a6512b0e4399bd5f1d88fd684c5b571"},"modified":"2017-05-24T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:00:01","slug":"border-walls-may-pose-big-challenges-to-biodiversity-but-smaller-ones-to-humans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=320245","title":{"rendered":"Border walls may pose big challenges to biodiversity\u2014but smaller ones to humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the prospect of a US-Mexico border wall looming, research and reporting on the ecological impacts of walls is both important and timely. Reporting in BioScience on such barriers&#8217; known effects on wildlife, science journalist Lesley Evans Ogden describes the potential effects of the proposed structure along the 2000-mile US-Mexico border. &#8220;If the wall is completed, it will create a considerable biodiversity conservation challenge\u2014one unlikely to disappear anytime soon,&#8221; she writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the prospect of a US-Mexico border wall looming, research and reporting on the ecological impacts of walls is both important and timely. Reporting in BioScience on such barriers&#8217; known effects on wildlife, science journalist Lesley Evans Ogden describes the potential effects of the proposed structure along the 2000-mile US-Mexico border. &#8220;If the wall is completed, it will create a considerable biodiversity conservation challenge&mdash;one unlikely to disappear anytime soon,&#8221; she writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320246,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320245\/revisions\/320246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}