{"id":23106,"date":"2020-09-25T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T04:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/hawk-or-dove-birdwatching-worlds-feathers-ruffled-over-taiwan-independence"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T04:38:43","slug":"hawk-or-dove-birdwatching-worlds-feathers-ruffled-over-taiwan-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23106","title":{"rendered":"Hawk or dove? Birdwatching world&#8217;s feathers ruffled over Taiwan independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plea to remember \u2018birds do not know borders\u2019 amid spat between Taiwan\u2019s largest bird conservation group and UK-based BirdLife International<\/p>\n<p>Birdwatchers around the world may have to decide whether they are hawks or doves when it comes to the thorny issue of Taiwan independence.<\/p>\n<p>Long-running geopolitical tensions spilled into the conservation world this month after UK-based NGO BirdLife International severed ties with a Taiwanese group, after it refused to sign a declaration it would not advocate for independence \u2013 something the apolitical group maintains it never does anyway.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/hawk-or-dove-birdwatching-worlds-feathers-ruffled-over-taiwan-independence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plea to remember \u2018birds do not know borders\u2019 amid spat between Taiwan\u2019s largest bird conservation group and UK-based BirdLife InternationalBirdwatchers around the world may have to decide whether they are hawks or doves when it comes to the thorny issu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,337,50,65,74,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-birds","category-china","category-environment","category-taiwan","category-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23107,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106\/revisions\/23107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}