{"id":28964,"date":"2021-02-26T13:53:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/26\/high-hopes-drones-join-fight-to-save-new-zealands-rarest-dolphin"},"modified":"2021-02-26T13:53:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:53:50","slug":"high-hopes-drones-join-fight-to-save-new-zealands-rarest-dolphin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28964","title":{"rendered":"High hopes: drones join fight to save New Zealand\u2019s rarest dolphin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers of M\u0101ui dolphins have been slashed by fishing and other threats, with only an estimated 63 adults remaining in the wild<\/p>\n<p>The lives of New Zealand\u2019s smallest and most endangered dolphins will soon become less elusive as drones take to the skies to study their location, habits and numbers.<\/p>\n<p>M\u0101ui dolphins are a subspecies of the Hector\u2019s dolphin and are one of the rarest dolphins in the world, living in a small stretch of ocean off the west coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a>\u2019s North Island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/26\/high-hopes-drones-join-fight-to-save-new-zealands-rarest-dolphin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers of M\u0101ui dolphins have been slashed by fishing and other threats, with only an estimated 63 adults remaining in the wildThe lives of New Zealand\u2019s smallest and most endangered dolphins will soon become less elusive as drones take to the skies to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964","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\/1814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions\/28968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}