{"id":6869,"date":"2011-03-04T09:44:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2011-03-04T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T14:44:46","slug":"artist-lends-voice-to-shark-protection-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/03\/artist-lends-voice-to-shark-protection-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Artist Lends Voice To Shark Protection Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARINE wildlife artist Guy Harvey launched a custom-designed logo for the campaign to protect sharks in Bahamian waters at Bahamas National Trust&#8217;s Retreat Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican-born artist, scientist and conservationist renowned for his popular T-shirt designs, also spoke to the press and members of the Trust about work the Guy Harvey Research Institute has done to aid understanding of the importance of sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Shark populations around the world are threatened with extinction as they are increasingly targetted for their fins to be served in the East Asian delicacy shark fin soup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine wildlife artist Guy Harvey has added his voice to the campaign for the enactment of legislation that will prevent commercial shark fishing in the Bahamas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[26,124,91,31,76,23,49,52],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-arts","tag-celebrity","tag-china","tag-crime","tag-environment-2","tag-food","tag-law","tag-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}