{"id":1277,"date":"2015-12-03T04:54:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2015-12-03T05:06:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T05:06:19","slug":"delmarva-fox-squirrel-removed-from-endangered-species-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/delmarva-fox-squirrel-removed-from-endangered-species-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Delmarva Fox Squirrel Removed from Endangered Species List"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1278\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/squirrel_1-620x264.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1278\" class=\"wp-image-1278 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/squirrel_1-620x264.png\" alt=\"squirrel_1-620x264\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/squirrel_1-620x264.png 620w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/squirrel_1-620x264-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/squirrel_1-620x264-250x106.png 250w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/squirrel_1-620x264-150x64.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Guy Willey, U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service Northeast Region, licensed by cc 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;One of the first subspecies to be listed as federally endangered over 45 years ago has made its way back from the brink of extinction, thanks in large part to collaborate conservation efforts between state and federal agencies as well as private landowners.<\/p>\n<p>On November 13 the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced the delisting of the Delmarva fox squirrel (Sciurus niger cinereus), one of ten subspecies of the eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger). Once occurring throughout forested areas in the Delmarva Peninsula, which includes portions of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, the subspecies was down to 10% of its historic range at the time of listing in 1967.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, see the full <a href=\"http:\/\/wildlife.org\/delmarva-fox-squirrel-removed-from-endangered-species-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>\u00a0from which\u00a0this news\u00a0excerpt was extracted as\u00a0posted at www.wilfelife.org on November 17, 2015 by\u00a0Wildlife Society&#8217;s author\u00a0Caroline E. Murphy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta post-meta\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of the first subspecies to be listed as federally endangered over 45 years ago has made its way back from the brink of extinction, thanks in large part to collaborate conservation efforts between state and federal agencies as well as private landowners.<\/p>\n<p>On November 13 the U.S. Fish &amp;  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/delmarva-fox-squirrel-removed-from-endangered-species-list\/\"> Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}