{"id":251,"date":"2012-07-07T08:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T07:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2012-07-07T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T07:59:29","slug":"salgados-672012jpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Salgados 6.7.2012.jpg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/7519068488\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/7519068488\/\">IMG_0262.jpg<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8284\/7519068488_f69b8c8f5f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is Salgados right now &#8230; officially &#8220;protected&#8221; as a Wetland Bird Sanctuary of prime importance, but in fact completely dry! Just sun-baked earth &#8230; no Life at all.<\/p>\n<p>If this is what full protection means now, what hope have we if the &#8220;development&#8221; of the area goes ahead as planned?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a disgrace that Portugal is currently promoting itself as a location for Nature-based holidays while allowing the degradation of a unique area like this to be despoiled in an erroneous grab for tourist dollars.<br \/>\nPlease sign and share <a title=\"Save Salgados petition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/petition\/Save_Salgados_a_unique_internationally_recognized_birding_sanctuary_from_being_destroyed\/?launch\" target=\"_blank\">our petition<\/a> to help the NGOs concerned get proper protection for this vital area &#8230; once it&#8217;s developed it&#8217;ll be gone for ever &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMG_0262.jpg, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. This is Salgados right now &#8230; officially &#8220;protected&#8221; as a Wetland Bird Sanctuary of prime importance, but in fact completely dry! Just sun-baked earth &#8230; no Life at all. If this is what full protection means now, what hope have we if the &#8220;development&#8221; of the area goes [&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":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}