{"id":753,"date":"2019-10-16T11:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/?p=753"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:05:54","slug":"nature-matters-to-canadians-so-conservation-should-be-an-election-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/2019\/nature-matters-to-canadians-so-conservation-should-be-an-election-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature matters to Canadians, so conservation should be an election issue"},"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                        Nature matters to Canadians, so conservation should be an election issue\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The natural environment is fundamental to Canada\u2019s national identity \u2014 look no further than the polar bear and caribou on the change in your pocket. Canadians often point to nature <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3565640\/the-best-and-worst-of-canada-what-canadians-think-of-their-own-country\/\">as the best thing about Canada<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/nature-matters-to-canadians-so-conservation-should-be-an-election-issue-121728\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The natural environment is fundamental to Canada\u2019s national identity \u2014 look no further than the polar bear and caribou on the change in your pocket. Canadians often point to nature as the best thing about Canada. more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}