{"id":108481,"date":"2018-01-17T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=108481"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:01:58","slug":"farmers-alert-against-african-snail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/01\/17\/farmers-alert-against-african-snail\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers alert against African snail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-108511\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lissachatina_fulicaTexas-Invasives-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The president of the National Association of Agropecuarian Professionals (ANPA), Danilo Severino called for President Danilo Medina to declare the eastern region in red alert for the presence of the giant African snail (Lissachatina fulica). The large land snail is regarded as one of the most dangerous invasive species that causes severe damage to agricultural crops and native plants and spreads human disease. It picks up diseases from rats and transmits these to dogs and cats.<\/p>\n<p>Severino said the pest was first detected in a hotel in the east, and latter in the Do\u00f1a Cuba and Puerta del Sol residential area in B\u00e1varo. Severino called for Medina to instruct the ministries of agriculture, environment and public health to take action to eliminate the mollusk and avoid its reproduction. The snail is the size of a human hand.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eldia.com.do\/region-este-en-alerta-por-plaga\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>17 January 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the National Association of Agropecuarian Professionals (ANPA), Danilo Severino called for President Danilo Medina to declare the eastern region in red alert for the presence of the giant African snail (Lissachatina fulica). The large land snail is regarded as one of the most dangerous invasive species that causes severe damage to agricultural &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/01\/17\/farmers-alert-against-african-snail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}