{"id":7910,"date":"2019-08-01T16:20:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:48","slug":"for-the-love-of-loons-its-time-to-stand-up-for-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2019\/for-the-love-of-loons-its-time-to-stand-up-for-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology&#8217;s Rachel Buxton declares it&#8217;s time to stand up for biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biology&#8217;s Rachel Buxton declares it&#8217;s time to stand up for biodiversity\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Rachel-Buxton-1-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Rachel-Buxton-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Rachel-Buxton-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Rachel-Buxton-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Rachel-Buxton-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Rachel-Buxton-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Rachel-Buxton-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Canadians head to the polls this October, it\u2019s never been more important to speak up about and vote for biodiversity writes Research Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/rachel-buxton\/\">Rachel Buxton<\/a> <em> at Carleton University who specializes in biodiversity conservation science in Canada. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/2019\/07\/29\/for-the-love-of-loons-its-time-to-stand-up-for-biodiversity\/209207\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This piece has been endorsed by leading biodiversity researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/joseph-bennett\/\">Joseph Bennett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/steven-j-cooke\/\">Steven Cooke<\/a>, Aerin Jacob, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/richard-schuster\/\">Richard Schuster<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/lenore-fahrig\/\">Lenore Fahrig<\/a>, and Kai Chan.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As Canadians head to the polls this October, it\u2019s never been more important to speak up about and vote for biodiversity writes Research Fellow Rachel Buxton at Carleton University who specializes in biodiversity conservation science in Canada. &nbsp; Read more here This piece has been endorsed by leading biodiversity researchers Joseph Bennett, Steven Cooke, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7913,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/7913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}