{"id":44085,"date":"2019-08-02T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=44085"},"modified":"2019-08-02T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T18:36:21","slug":"2-florida-panthers-killed-by-vehicles-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/08\/2-florida-panthers-killed-by-vehicles-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Florida panthers killed by vehicles last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2d6c59ea-9bd8-4ed6-b8ca-d00434464d1e-banner.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2d6c59ea-9bd8-4ed6-b8ca-d00434464d1e-banner.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2d6c59ea-9bd8-4ed6-b8ca-d00434464d1e-banner-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2d6c59ea-9bd8-4ed6-b8ca-d00434464d1e-banner-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2d6c59ea-9bd8-4ed6-b8ca-d00434464d1e-banner-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(AP is reporting) \u2014 Two female Florida panthers, including\none pregnant with two babies, have died after being hit by cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says\nan 11-month-old panther died last week in Lee County and 5-year-old panther\ndied just a few days before that in Collier County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 5-year-old panther was pregnant with two babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wildlife agency says 17 panthers have been killed, if\nthe fetuses are counted, so far this year, and most of the deaths have been by\nvehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, 30 deaths were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Florida panther has been on the endangered list for more\nthan 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Wildlife Foundation estimates there are only\n120 to 130 Florida panthers left in the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP is reporting) \u2014 Two female Florida panthers, including one pregnant with two babies, have died after being hit by cars. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}