{"id":42181,"date":"2026-01-20T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42181"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:53:41","slug":"the-influencer-racing-to-save-thailands-most-endangered-sea-mammal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42181","title":{"rendered":"The influencer racing to save Thailand\u2019s most endangered sea mammal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Amateur conservationist and social media influencer Theerasak \u2018Pop\u2019 Saksritawee has a rare bond with Thailand\u2019s critically endangered dugongs. With dugong fatalities increasing, Pop works alongside scientists at Phuket Marine Biological Centre to track the mammals with his drone and restore their disappearing seagrass habitat. Translating complex science for thousands online, Pop raises an urgent alarm about climate change, pollution and habitat loss \u2014 before Thailand\u2019s dugongs vanish forever<\/p>\n<p> Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amateur conservationist and social media influencer Theerasak \u2018Pop\u2019 Saksritawee has a rare bond with Thailand\u2019s critically endangered dugongs. With dugong fatalities increasing, Pop works alongside scientists at Phuket Marine Biological Centre to track the mammals with his drone and restore their disappearing seagrass habitat. Translating complex science for thousands online, Pop raises an urgent alarm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1739,17643,7996,6834,1119,464,6334],"class_list":{"0":"post-42181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-endangered","9":"tag-influencer","10":"tag-mammal","11":"tag-racing","12":"tag-save","13":"tag-sea","14":"tag-thailands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}