{"id":3820,"date":"2026-08-18T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:46:42","slug":"endangered-orca-shot-off-the-coast-of-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/endangered-orca-shot-off-the-coast-of-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Orca Shot Off the Coast of Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Iberian orca recently observed off the coast of C\u00e1diz was found to have multiple penetrating wounds on its dorsal fin, consistent with shotgun shot patterns. The Iberian orca is a critically endangered species worldwide, with only about 30 individuals remaining in the entire population, making its survival extremely precarious. In addition to direct human-caused harm, ship noise, marine plastic pollution, oil spills, and reduced food supplies due to overfishing continue to threaten the survival and reproduction of this population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iberian orca recently observed off the coast of C\u00e1diz was found to have multiple penetrating wounds on its dorsal fin, consistent with shotgun shot patterns. The Iberian orca is a critically endangered species worldwide, with only about 30 individuals remaining in the entire population, making its survival extremely precarious. In addition to direct human-caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cetacean-conservation"],"views":34,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}