{"id":3041,"date":"2025-02-21T23:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2025-02-21T23:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:55:54","slug":"charismatic-species-and-not-so-charismatic-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3041","title":{"rendered":"charismatic species and not so charismatic ones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/carrion-beetle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"246\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/carrion-beetle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3042\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>giant carrion beetle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just read a <em>National Geographic<\/em> article titled: &#8220;The Conservation Popularity Contest.&#8221;  The crux is that advocacy groups have a tendency to focus on saving &#8220;charismatic species,&#8221; like the panda, the polar bear, koalas&#8230; Yet there are other species that are not that glamorous, or attractive even, but need saving just as much because of their roles in the overall eco-system web.  For instance, the American giant carrion beetle &#8212; described as the &#8220;&#8230;vulture of the insect world.&#8221;  This beetle is currently assessed as &#8220;critically endangered,&#8221; due to habitat loss and pesticides.  The article notes that there are now some 35,000 endangered species.  It would be our administration&#8217;s take that God set up this complex, creative, interdependent eco-system.  And being good environmental stewards means doing everything possible to maintain that eco-system being as healthy as possible.  That simple.  For more on our stance on the environment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/environment-ckji\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>giant carrion beetle I just read a National Geographic article titled: &#8220;The Conservation Popularity Contest.&#8221; The crux is that advocacy groups have a tendency to focus on saving &#8220;charismatic species,&#8221; like the panda, the polar bear, koalas&#8230; Yet there are <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3041\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}