{"id":11934,"date":"2024-09-20T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-is-the-effect-of-blue-green-algae-on-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:20:09","slug":"what-is-the-effect-of-blue-green-algae-on-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-is-the-effect-of-blue-green-algae-on-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the effect of blue-green algae on wildlife?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">When the largest lake in the UK turns green, it&#8217;s hard not to wonder about the effect on local wildlife.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Blue-green algae is known to emit toxins which can cause skin irritation in humans, or stomach upsets if a lot of affected water is ingested while swimming, for example.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">And it is known to be potentially fatal for dogs.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But &#8220;surprisingly,&#8221; says one scientist who&#8217;s been studying the algae, very little is known about its effect on wildlife.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Read <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdx9z0142v4o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">more here. <!-- --><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/ce81jy63jp4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the largest lake in the UK turns green, it&#8217;s hard not to wonder about the effect on local wildlife. Blue-green algae is known to emit toxins which can cause skin irritation in humans, or stomach upsets if a lot of affected water is ingested while swimming, for example. And it is known to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[3769,3768,4983,2536],"class_list":["post-11934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-algae","tag-bluegreen","tag-effect","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11936,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934\/revisions\/11936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}