{"id":1863,"date":"2023-08-14T07:46:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/08\/14\/dept-puts-up-signage-at-the-mc-dougall-s-bay-islands-in-port-nolloth\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T07:46:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:46:36","slug":"dept-puts-up-signage-at-the-mc-dougall-s-bay-islands-in-port-nolloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/08\/14\/dept-puts-up-signage-at-the-mc-dougall-s-bay-islands-in-port-nolloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Dept puts up signage at The Mc Dougall&#8217;s Bay Islands in Port-Nolloth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>08 August 2023<\/p>\n<p>Dept. puts up signage at The Mc Dougall&#8217;s Bay Islands\u00a0 in Port- Nolloth<\/p>\n<p>The signage is put-up to create awareness on the Endangered Cormorant Breeding pairs along the Northern Cape coast.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These Islands are important breeding sites for 4 Cormorant (Duiker) bird species namely;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cape Cormorant (Trekduiker)<\/li>\n<li>Bank Cormorant (Bankduiker)<\/li>\n<li>Crowned Cormorant (Kuifkopduiker)<\/li>\n<li>White-Breasted Cormorant (Witborsduiker).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The decrease in breeding has been caused mainly by fish shortages and disturbances at nesting sites.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1860\" style=\"border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px; float: left; margin: 4px; border: 3px solid #cccccc;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/Signage-1.jpg\" data-title=\"\" data-droppicspicture=\"18\" data-droppicscategory=\"152\" data-droppicssource=\"thumbnail\" data-click=\"lightbox\" data-droppicslightbox=\"lightbox\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1861\" style=\"border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px; float: left; margin: 4px; border: 3px solid #cccccc;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/Signage3.jpg\" data-title=\"\" data-droppicspicture=\"19\" data-droppicscategory=\"152\" data-droppicssource=\"thumbnail\" data-click=\"lightbox\" data-droppicslightbox=\"lightbox\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1862\" style=\"border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px; float: left; margin: 4px; border: 3px solid #cccccc;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/signage2.jpg\" data-title=\"\" data-droppicspicture=\"20\" data-droppicscategory=\"152\" data-droppicssource=\"thumbnail\" data-click=\"lightbox\" data-droppicslightbox=\"lightbox\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08 August 2023 Dept. puts up signage at The Mc Dougall&#8217;s Bay Islands\u00a0 in Port- Nolloth The signage is put-up to create awareness on the Endangered Cormorant Breeding pairs along the Northern Cape coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}