{"id":43183,"date":"2026-01-30T05:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43183"},"modified":"2026-01-30T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:56:15","slug":"critically-endangered-skink-births-expected-after-captive-breeding-program-success-video-endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43183","title":{"rendered":"Critically endangered skink births expected after captive breeding program success \u2013 video | Endangered species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Eleven endangered skinks released into a gated community in Victoria&#8217;s Alpine national park will soon become 13, when Omeo, one of the females, gives birth in March. One of Australia&#8217;s only alpine lizards, guthega skinks live on &#8216;sky islands&#8217; above 1,600 metres in two isolated alpine locations \u2013 Bogong high plains in Victoria and Mount Kosciuszko in NSW. &#8216;They&#8217;re extremely vulnerable, given where they live,&#8217; says skink specialist Dr Zak Atkins, director of Snowline Ecology. As the climate warms, their alpine zone is retracting, and there&#8217;s nowhere higher for them to go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven endangered skinks released into a gated community in Victoria&#8217;s Alpine national park will soon become 13, when Omeo, one of the females, gives birth in March. One of Australia&#8217;s only alpine lizards, guthega skinks live on &#8216;sky islands&#8217; above 1,600 metres in two isolated alpine locations \u2013 Bogong high plains in Victoria and Mount<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[4764,21456,6949,5001,1739,1845,536,22604,5004,873,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-43183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-births","9":"tag-breeding","10":"tag-captive","11":"tag-critically","12":"tag-endangered","13":"tag-expected","14":"tag-program","15":"tag-skink","16":"tag-species","17":"tag-success","18":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43183","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=43183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}