{"id":58738,"date":"2023-09-26T16:39:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/26\/brown-bear-cubs-in-japan-die-of-starvation-amid-salmon-shortage"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:39:45","slug":"brown-bear-cubs-in-japan-die-of-starvation-amid-salmon-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58738","title":{"rendered":"Brown bear cubs in Japan die of starvation amid salmon shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts blame rising sea temperatures caused by  climate crisis for cub deaths at Unesco heritage site<\/p>\n<p>As many as eight in 10 brown bear cubs born this year in a remote part of northern Japan have died amid a shortage of salmon, with experts blaming rising sea temperatures caused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\">climate crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with acorns, pink salmon are an important source of food for the estimated 500 brown bears living along Hokkaido\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2008\/may\/28\/climatechange.conservation\">Shiretoko peninsula<\/a>, a Unesco world heritage site known for its dramatic coastline and wild animals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/26\/brown-bear-cubs-in-japan-die-of-starvation-amid-salmon-shortage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts blame rising sea temperatures caused by  climate crisis for cub deaths at Unesco heritage siteAs many as eight in 10 brown bear cubs born this year in a remote part of northern Japan have died amid a shortage of salmon, with experts blaming ris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[265,41,2331,456,464,65,88,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-conservation","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-japan","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58738","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58739,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58738\/revisions\/58739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}