{"id":115173,"date":"2025-08-03T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115173\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:48:11","slug":"saving-the-worlds-rarest-crocodile-from-its-bad-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115173\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the world&#8217;s rarest crocodile from its bad reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Bernard Tarun, now a biodiversity expert at the Mabuwaya Foundation, wasn&#8217;t a fan of crocodiles when he started off. The first time he held a Philippine crocodile in his hands, he was bitten. But instead of shunning the creatures, he grew adamant he&#8217;d establish rapport with them, learn how to manage them, and never get bitten again. &#8220;Especially those communities living near the crocodile localities, they already changed their mind,&#8221; says Tarun. &#8220;From &#8216;Oh, you have to kill that one&#8217;, now to &#8216;Okay, don&#8217;t disturb, enjoy watching the crocodile&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernard Tarun, now a biodiversity expert at the Mabuwaya Foundation, wasn&#8217;t a fan of crocodiles when he started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-115173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114963972521466487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}