{"id":1676,"date":"2015-04-14T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T14:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2015-04-14T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T14:10:16","slug":"wayne-edwards-on-the-sunday-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2015\/04\/14\/wayne-edwards-on-the-sunday-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Edwards in the Sunday Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The paper headline reads, &#8216;One man and his frog&#8217;. The article published on 12th April in the Plymouth Sunday Independent charts Wayne Edward&#8217;s journey to his PhD at DICE where he is studying the critically endangered golden mantella frog.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne&#8217;s supervisor, <a title=\"Richard Griffiths\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/conservation-biology\/academic-staff\/griffiths_richard.html\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Richard Griffiths<\/a>, successfully received a Darwin Initiaive grant to fund research on the <a title=\"CITES\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/research\/projects\/rg_cites.html\" target=\"_blank\">implementation of CITES<\/a> in Madagascar. \u00a0Wayne&#8217;s PhD links\u00a0with this research project as he aims to use monitoring of the large group of captive golden mantella at Paignton Zoo&#8217;s Amphibian Ark to inform the partners in Madagascar as they seek to locate suitable areas to restore habitat and breeding ponds.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article <a title=\"psi_edwards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/files\/psi_edwards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>(with permission of Plymouth Sunday Independent).<\/p>\n<p>Please read these associated articles about Wayne&#8217;s research:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BBC Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/earth\/story\/20141205-frog-saving-device\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Earth<\/a>: Uncovering the golden mantella&#8217;s secret life<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Western\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westernmorningnews.co.uk\/PICTURES-Scientists-use-froggotrons-race-save\/story-25841462-detail\/story.html#ixzz3OfOXjX9W\" target=\"_blank\">Western Morning News<\/a>: Pictures: Scientists use &#8216;froggotrons&#8217; in race to save rare frogs<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Express\" href=\"http:\/\/www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk\/Rain-forest-research-trip-zoo-scientist\/story-26111782-detail\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Herald Express:<\/a> Rain forest research trip for Paignton Zoo scientist<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2015\/04\/Golden-mantella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1680\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2015\/04\/Golden-mantella-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Golden mantella\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2015\/04\/Golden-mantella-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2015\/04\/Golden-mantella-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper headline reads, &#8216;One man and his frog&#8217;. The article published on 12th April in the Plymouth Sunday Independent charts Wayne Edward&#8217;s journey to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2015\/04\/14\/wayne-edwards-on-the-sunday-independent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1975,"featured_media":1678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6599,124,70,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}