{"id":8504,"date":"2019-04-18T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=8504"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:27:50","slug":"reaction-ford-government-hands-a-rotten-egg-to-ontarios-wildlife-just-in-time-for-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/8504\/reaction-ford-government-hands-a-rotten-egg-to-ontarios-wildlife-just-in-time-for-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"REACTION &#8211; Ford Government hands a rotten egg to Ontario\u2019s wildlife just in time for Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Responding to today\u2019s proposals by the Ontario government to amend the Endangered Species Act, Head of Forest Campaign with Greenpeace Canada Shane Moffatt commented:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Ford government is proposing to create a potential \u201cpay to slay\u201d loophole in the Endangered Species Act that allows industry and developers to pay into a fund rather than protect the habitat of at-risk species. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a time when the Earth\u2019s wildlife are in crisis, we should be restoring our natural environment, not allowing big business<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to cut a cheque and send in the bulldozers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marie-Christine Fiset, Head of Media, Greenpeace Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:marie-christine.fiset@greenpeace.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marie-christine.fiset@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; +1 514 400-3256<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to today\u2019s proposals by the Ontario government to amend the Endangered Species Act, Head of Forest Campaign with Greenpeace Canada Shane Moffatt commented: \u201cThe Ford government is proposing to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":7321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-forests","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8506,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions\/8506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}