{"id":809,"date":"2019-08-03T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T14:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=809"},"modified":"2019-08-03T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T14:22:36","slug":"balloons-are-litter-do-not-release-them-into-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Balloons Are Litter; Do Not Release Them Into The Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/balloon.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/balloon-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finding balloons in conservation lands is an all-too-common occurrence these days.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s because the activity is incompletely .regulated and public education may be lagging.<br \/>\nFlorida<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/statutes\/index.cfm?mode=View%20Statutes&amp;SubMenu=1&amp;App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;Search_String=balloons&amp;URL=0300-0399\/0379\/Sections\/0379.233.html\"> bans releases<\/a> of 10 or more balloons unless they area biodegradable or photodegradable. Violations can bring a $250 fine.<br \/>\nThe problem many have encountered is not with mass balloon releases, but with individual releases, either intentional or accidental, that can be carried many miles&#8211;some have been documented to travel hundreds of miles&#8211;into wildlife habitat.<br \/>\nPerhaps the best approach is to work to persuade people to use more environmentally sensitive practices to celebrate events, remember loved ones and other uses.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding balloons in conservation lands is an all-too-common occurrence these days. That&#8217;s because the activity is incompletely .regulated and public education may be lagging. Florida bans releases of 10 or more balloons unless they area biodegradable or photodegradable. Violations can bring a $250 fine. The problem many have encountered is not with mass balloon releases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}