{"id":5242,"date":"2018-08-29T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2018-09-25T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:25:44","slug":"good-bad-and-invasive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/good-bad-and-invasive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, the Bad and the Invasive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Did you know that the second largest threat to biodiversity is invasive species?<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s right after habitat loss.<\/p>\n<p>Non-native species can come from other countries or from right here in Canada. And while some of these <a href=\"http:\/\/loveyourlake.ca\/project\/invasive-species\/?src=blog\">non-native species<\/a> can actually be beneficial, some can be invasive \u2013 becoming predators, competitors, parasites, and can even bring diseases to our native wildlife. With few predators they can spread rapidly and can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce biodiversity<\/li>\n<li>Disrupt food webs<\/li>\n<li>Degrade habitat<\/li>\n<li>Impact species health<\/li>\n<li>Interfere with our recreational activities<\/li>\n<li>Cause major economic damage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once established, they are difficult to control or eradicate and their impacts are often irreversible.<\/p>\n<h4>Let\u2019s all do our part to help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species and protect our lakes! Read more at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/loveyourlake.ca\/good-bad-ugly-invasive-species\/?src=blog\">LoveYourLake.ca blog.<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Did you know that the second largest threat to biodiversity is invasive species? That\u2019s right after habitat loss. Non-native species can come from other countries or from right here in&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[636,631,642,6,637,633],"tags":[180,177,702,178,172],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coasts-oceans","category-connect-with-nature","category-education","category-endangered-species","category-lakes-rivers","category-canadian-wildlife","tag-aquatic-invasive-plant","tag-aquatic-invasive-species","tag-invasive-plants","tag-invasive-species","tag-love-your-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}