{"id":88081,"date":"2016-09-06T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=88081"},"modified":"2016-09-06T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:35:09","slug":"giant-panda-no-longer-endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/giant-panda-no-longer-endangered-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Woohoo! The Giant Panda Is No Longer Endangered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is bear-y\u00a0incredible<em>\u00a0<\/em>news. Giant pandas are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-37272718\" target=\"_blank\">no longer an endangered species<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>After decades of conservation efforts, the panda has gone from\u00a0&#8220;endangered&#8221; to &#8220;vulnerable&#8221; thanks to a population rebound in China. It was announced with the update to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-37272718\" target=\"_blank\">International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-37272718\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> that China&#8217;s efforts to protect their national animal brought the number of giant pandas up to 1,864 adults.\u00a0Although conversation efforts are effective, the IUCN warned &#8220;the rebound could be short-lived&#8221; as climate change can wipe out more than a third of the giant panda&#8217;s habitat.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to help combat climate change would be to be active about &#8220;effective forest protection measures&#8221; and to make sure &#8220;emerging threats are addressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"This is bear-y\u00a0incredible\u00a0news. Giant pandas are\u00a0no longer an endangered species! After decades of conservation efforts, ...","author":422344,"featured_media":88083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/06101952\/shutterstock_411457171-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/06101952\/shutterstock_411457171.jpg","formated_date":"September 6, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#47af2a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}