{"id":887314,"date":"2026-01-23T21:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/environmental-defenders-conservationists-who-died-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:22:13","slug":"environmental-defenders-conservationists-who-died-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/environmental-defenders-conservationists-who-died-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental defenders &#038; conservationists who died in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I write short obituaries for people who spent their lives protecting parts of the natural world. I work on them in the margins of other responsibilities, yet they have become a constant. In 2025, I produced over 70. The people I write about are often described as conservationists&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2025\/12\/environmental-defenders-conservationists-who-died-in-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Margarete Ramage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write short obituaries for people who spent their lives protecting parts of the natural world. I work on them in the margins of other responsibilities, yet they have become a constant. In 2025, I produced over 70. The people I write about are often described as conservationists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24826,31056,192],"tags":[21705,10877],"class_list":{"0":"post-887314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-defenders","8":"category-environmental","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-defenders","11":"tag-environmental"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}