{"id":19310,"date":"2012-03-14T02:43:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T06:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2012-03-14T02:43:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T06:43:28","slug":"fowl-cays-added-to-list-of-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/fowl-cays-added-to-list-of-national-parks","title":{"rendered":"Fowl Cays Added To List of National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19311\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19311\" title=\"fowls-cays-bahamas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fowls-cays-bahamas-250x172.jpg\" alt=\"The Fowls Cays - Bahamas\" width=\"250\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fowls-cays-bahamas-250x172.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fowls-cays-bahamas-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/fowls-cays-bahamas.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fowls Cays, Exuma, The Bahamas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bahamas can now boast yet another national park to add to its list  of nearly 30 with the creation of the Fowl Cays National Park.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Earl Deveaux announced the &#8220;monumental event&#8221;  yesterday afternoon at the Bahamas National Trust, where he also  announced the expansion of two existing national parks: the Conception  Island National Park and the Andros Westside National Park.<\/p>\n<p>He also told the press the creation of this new park and the two expansions will cost the government minimal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By these three acts we&#8217;ve expanded the national park system by just  over 875,000 acres and it&#8217;s going to cost the government $3.00 a year,&#8221;  Dr Deveaux said.<\/p>\n<p>However, he pointed out, the government has also given the Trust one million in endowments over the last three budgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Minister Earl Deveaux announced that Fowl Cays, in The Exumas, will be added to the list of nearly 30 other National Parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-19310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-environment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}