{"id":30575,"date":"2026-10-10T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/a-giant-insect-on-the-brink-of-extinction-is-making-an-extraordinary-comeback\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:15:21","slug":"a-giant-insect-on-the-brink-of-extinction-is-making-an-extraordinary-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/a-giant-insect-on-the-brink-of-extinction-is-making-an-extraordinary-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"A Giant Insect on the Brink of Extinction Is Making an Extraordinary Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/a-giant-insect-on-the-brink-of-extinction-is-making-an-extraordinary-comeback\/\" title=\"A Giant Insect on the Brink of Extinction Is Making an Extraordinary Comeback\"><\/a>Captive breeding has helped New Zealand\u2019s largest giant w\u0113t\u0101 establish new wild populations, with at least four generations now born on two islands. As early European settlers cleared land for farms and introduced rats, stoats, and other pests, w\u0113t\u0101punga disappeared from every wild refuge except Te Hauturu-o-Toi\/Little Barrier Island. Moving these giant insects elsewhere offered [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captive breeding has helped New Zealand\u2019s largest giant w\u0113t\u0101 establish new wild populations, with at least four generations now born on two islands. As early European settlers cleared land for farms and introduced rats, stoats, and other pests, w\u0113t\u0101punga disappeared from every wild refuge except Te Hauturu-o-Toi\/Little Barrier Island. Moving these giant insects elsewhere offered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/a-giant-insect-on-the-brink-of-extinction-is-making-an-extraordinary-comeback\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Giant Insect on the Brink of Extinction Is Making an Extraordinary Comeback&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}