{"id":910634,"date":"2026-06-05T14:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/young-conservationists-are-building-hope-optimism-despite-challenging-times-commentary\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:12:18","slug":"young-conservationists-are-building-hope-optimism-despite-challenging-times-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/young-conservationists-are-building-hope-optimism-despite-challenging-times-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Young conservationists are building hope &#038; optimism despite challenging times (commentary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several recent articles at Mongabay regarding mental health in the conservation sector provide a much-needed overview of an issue not talked about enough: that conservationists face a mental health crisis, an \u201cepidemic of suffering\u201d that is nestled within a complex biodiversity crisis. We are in a profession in which loss is a normal&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2026\/04\/young-conservationists-are-building-hope-optimism-despite-challenging-times-commentary\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Clora Redner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several recent articles at Mongabay regarding mental health in the conservation sector provide a much-needed overview of an issue not talked about enough: that conservationists face a mental health crisis, an \u201cepidemic of suffering\u201d that is nestled within a complex biodiversity crisis. We are in a profession in which loss is a normal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122879,192,1649],"tags":[150002,7196],"class_list":["post-910634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-conservationists","category-sports","category-young","tag-conservationists","tag-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910634","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=910634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}