{"id":249,"date":"2012-07-04T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2012-07-04T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:39:25","slug":"flamingos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"The RSPB and SPEA both support our petition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/7487089246\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7265\/7487089246_ef07a082c7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/7487089246\/\">Flamingos<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The petition gathers momentum!<\/p>\n<p>Today we managed to get both SPEA, (Sociedade Portuguesa para Protec\u00e7\u00e3o das Aves), and it&#8217;s better known counterpart the RSPB, to both publish articles with the petition link on their websites. SPEA&#8217;s is <a title=\"SPEA's article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spea.pt\/pt\/noticias\/negligencia-na-lagoa-dos-salgados\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and the RSPB&#8217;s <a title=\"RSPB's article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/community\/getinvolved\/b\/specialplaces\/archive\/2012\/07\/04\/portugal-s-salgados-more-grief-and-illegal-activity-in-a-sad-and-frustrating-saga.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The petition&#8217;s numbers are climbing steadily; 4,320 now, and we should have breached the 5,000 mark by this time tomorrow &#8211; so let&#8217;s head for 10,000! And after that 20,000! Let&#8217;s really show these politicians and property developers that it&#8217;s OUR land too!<\/p>\n<p>What next? I&#8217;m trying to get the Audubon Society involved and have written to and rung all their Press officers and editors. Does anyone have any contacts?<\/p>\n<p>Also, does anyone have any UK media contacts? If so can you write to them &#8211; or if you haven&#8217;t got the time to, can you introduce me and I&#8217;ll do it? If we can get some Big Hitters involved &#8230; any help you can give us would be very gratefully appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>See you the other side of 5 grand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flamingos, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. The petition gathers momentum! Today we managed to get both SPEA, (Sociedade Portuguesa para Protec\u00e7\u00e3o das Aves), and it&#8217;s better known counterpart the RSPB, to both publish articles with the petition link on their websites. SPEA&#8217;s is here and the RSPB&#8217;s here. The petition&#8217;s numbers are climbing steadily; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,162,158,163],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flamingo","tag-rspb","tag-salgados","tag-spea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}