{"id":25989,"date":"2020-01-06T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25989"},"modified":"2020-01-06T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T03:24:18","slug":"national-parks-funding-decreases-amid-growing-threats-to-the-environment-former-ranger-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25989","title":{"rendered":"National parks funding decreases amid growing threats to the environment, former ranger warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ross_MdKinney.jpg\" alt=\"Ross MdKinney\" class=\"wp-image-25990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ross_MdKinney.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ross_MdKinney-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former rangers, traditional owners and conservationists are warning Australia&#8217;s national parks are reaching an environmental tipping point, with funding cuts at both a state and federal level leaving them in poor condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-07-06\/national-parks-underfunded-former-ranger-warns\/11282562\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-07-06\/national-parks-underfunded-former-ranger-warns\/11282562<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former rangers, traditional owners and conservationists are warning Australia&#8217;s national parks are reaching an environmental tipping point, with funding cuts at both a state and federal level leaving them in poor condition. https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-07-06\/national-parks-underfunded-former-ranger-warns\/11282562<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25991,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25989\/revisions\/25991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}