{"id":9628,"date":"2020-01-20T15:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T21:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:23:53","slug":"news-press-now-locals-say-its-the-perfect-storm-for-australian-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/20\/news-press-now-locals-say-its-the-perfect-storm-for-australian-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Locals say it&#8217;s the perfect storm for Australian fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/e\/67\/e67dcd4e-3946-11ea-b591-a7dee1e0539e\/5e21e1d957770.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C800\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Animals are obviously impacted by the damage on the continent. Koalas, kangaroos, wombats and wallabies are some of the wildlife most impacted. But the ecosystem as a whole could not be ready for wildlife again for a while.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cI have seen reports worried about the koala population and if they can even exist in the wild after this,\u201d Dr. Julie Jedlicka, an associate professor of biology at ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½. \u201cAs ecologists, for birds we are worried about them losing nesting sites and food availability in the fires. I don\u2019t think we won\u2019t see truly how bad these fires are for a while now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/locals-say-its-the-perfect-storm-for-australian-fires\/article_02f71720-362a-11ea-83b1-9f4e4583e5ae.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Animals are obviously impacted by the damage on the continent. Koalas, kangaroos, wombats and wallabies are some of the wildlife most impacted. But the ecosystem as a whole could not be ready for wildlife again for a while. \u201cI have seen reports worried about the koala population and if they can even exist in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9629,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions\/9629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}