{"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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ 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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ 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}]}}