{"id":3724,"date":"2010-10-20T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T18:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:47:50","slug":"invasive-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg-facts\/invasive-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens are Invading! The state of Invasive Species in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Canada, about <strong>5%<\/strong> of mammal species and <strong>27%<\/strong> of some plant species are invasive. Not all invasive species are harmful for an ecosystem but many are. Their populations take off because they usually don\u2019t have any natural predators. With so many new species crowding into a habitat and using up its resources, native species have a hard time keeping up, which leads to their population numbers dropping.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11860\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860\" title=\"purple_loosestrife_Lythrum_salicaria\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/invasive_purple_loosestrife.jpg\" alt=\"purple loosestrive\" width=\"576\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/invasive_purple_loosestrife.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/invasive_purple_loosestrife-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/invasive_purple_loosestrife-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/invasive_purple_loosestrife-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/invasive_purple_loosestrife-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/invasive_purple_loosestrife-559x420.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple loosestrife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hww.ca\/hww2.asp?id=220\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hww.ca\/hww2.asp?id=220<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2890 align=\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"2010_biodiversity_logo_convention\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png\" alt=\"biodiversity logo convention 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"95\" align=\"aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png 920w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-300x48.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-768x125.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-696x113.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Earth Rangers<\/span><\/strong><strong> has teamed up with <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The United Nations Convention<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">on Biological Diversity<\/span><\/strong><strong> to bring you a daily dose of <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1223\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">biodiversity basics<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some invasive species may look pretty, like the purple loosestrife, but they are actually very harmful for species around them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,409,453,931],"tags":[128,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-3724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg-plants","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-plants-2","10":"category-all","11":"tag-plants","12":"tag-united-nations"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}