{"id":124330,"date":"2025-10-15T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124330\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:47:08","slug":"vanishing-pond-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124330\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing Pond | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Fr\u00f6lich&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Fr\u00f6lich (Germany) finds a springtail among a galaxy of neon green gas bubbles in Austrian moorlands.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian visited this fragile wetland ecosystem to highlight its importance as a vast store of carbon dioxide and as a habitat for diverse wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny springtail ran across escaping gas bubbles rising through the algae, giving this image a sense of scale.<\/p>\n<p>Austria has lost 90% of its peat bogs. Only 10% of those that remain are in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>Platzertal is one of the last intact high moorlands in the Austrian Alps. It\u2019s an area renowned for its carbon-storing peat bogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Fr\u00f6lich&#8217;s Image Sebastian Fr\u00f6lich (Germany) finds a springtail among a galaxy of neon green gas bubbles in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-124330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}