{"id":34849,"date":"2019-09-10T14:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34849"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:32:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:32:03","slug":"australia-launches-emergency-relocation-of-fish-as-largest-river-system-faces-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34849","title":{"rendered":"Australia launches emergency relocation of fish as largest river system faces collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are skepticisms the Noah&rsquo;s Ark plan for the Lower Darling will be enough to prevent more mass fish kills<\/p>\n<p>Faced with a looming ferocious summer with little torrent forecast, the New South Wales government has started on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/aug\/28\/nsw-government-flags-noahs-ark-plan-to-stave-off-fish-armageddon\">Noah&rsquo;s Ark type operation<\/a> to move native fish from the Lower Darling- part of Australia&rsquo;s most significant river system- to safe havens before high temperatures return to the already stressed river basin.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have warned of other frightening ecological signs that the Lower Darling River- part of the giant Murray-Darling Basin- is in a dire state, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/feb\/18\/the-darling-will-die-scientists-say-mass-fish-kill-due-to-over-extraction-and-drought\">last summer&rsquo;s mass fish kills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/sep\/09\/plan-to-relocate-fish-as-australias-largest-river-system-faces-ecological-collapse\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/sep\/09\/plan-to-relocate-fish-as-australias-largest-river-system-faces-ecological-collapse\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are skepticisms the Noah&rsquo;s Ark plan for the Lower Darling will be enough to prevent more mass fish kills Faced with a looming ferocious summer with little torrent forecast, the New South Wales government has started on a Noah&rsquo;s Ark type operation to move native fish from the Lower Darling- part of Australia&rsquo;s most &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19478,389,19748,1317,2521,16602,4463,4981],"class_list":["post-34849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-australia-news","tag-climate-change","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-fish","tag-new-south-wales","tag-water","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/38851568125923.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}