{"id":1516,"date":"2011-03-16T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2011-03-16T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:15:07","slug":"monk-seal-stamp-issued-by-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/16\/monk-seal-stamp-issued-by-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk seal stamp issued by Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1517\" title=\"Croatia monk seal stamp\" src=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Croatia-monk-seal-stamp.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Croatia-monk-seal-stamp.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Croatia-monk-seal-stamp-125x150.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>A new postage stamp commemorating the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal has been issued by the Croatian postal service, Hrvatske po\u0161te, reports Jasna Antolovic, of the Zagreb-based NGO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monachus-guardian.org\/callingcards\/GrupaSredozemnaMedv.htm\">Grupa Sredozemna Medvjedica<\/a> (GSM). The design derives from photographs taken by Gianni Pecchiaro, a volunteer of GSM, at Verudela, Pula.<\/p>\n<p>Despite earlier conjecture that the species might be effectively extinct in Croatian waters \u2014 despite sporadic sightings of vagrant animals from Greece or other areas of the Mediterranean \u2014 recent research has convinced GSM that as many as 20 monk seals may still survive in Croatian waters.<\/p>\n<p>The stamp (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.posta.hr\/main.aspx?id=193&amp;idmarke=2217\" target=\"_blank\">No. 796 \u2013 Mediterranean monk seal<\/a>) appears as part of a Croatian Fauna series issued by Hrvatske po\u0161te.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new postage stamp commemorating the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal has been issued by the Croatian postal service, Hrvatske po\u0161te, reports Jasna Antolovic, of the Zagreb-based NGO Grupa Sredozemna Medvjedica (GSM). The design derives from photographs taken by Gianni Pecchiaro, a volunteer of GSM, at Verudela, Pula. Despite earlier conjecture that the species might &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/16\/monk-seal-stamp-issued-by-croatia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monk seal stamp issued by Croatia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,59,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediterranean-news","category-croatia","category-med-monk-seal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}