{"id":15021,"date":"2013-02-25T05:26:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambatovy.com\/docs\/?p=8717"},"modified":"2013-02-25T05:26:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:26:15","slug":"new-ant-species-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/new-ant-species-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ant Species Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8746\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambatovy.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/ant_species2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ambatovy\u2019s commitment to the environment was acknowledged with the presentation of a new ant species discovered by Brian Fisher, Ph.D., a renowned entomologist known for the identification and discovery of African ant species, and Chairman of the Department of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences. Dr. Fisher presented a photograph of the new species to Ambatovy President, Mark Plamondon, on November 21, 2012 at the Ambatovy Plant Site.<\/p>\n<p>The ant, <i>Tetramorium Ambatovy<\/i>, was discovered in one of Ambatovy\u2019s conservation zones surrounding the Mine site that is protected as a part of Ambatovy\u2019s offset conservation program in its areas of operations. The name <i>Ambatovy<\/i> was bestowed on the newly discovered species by Dr. Fisher as a recognition of Ambatovy\u2019s dedication to biodiversity conservation and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Ambatovy\u2019s offset program is based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bbop.forest-trends.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business and Biodiversity Offset Program (BBOP)<\/a> and was a pilot project used in developing the BBOP Standards. Through partnerships like the one between Ambatovy and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calacademy.org\/ target=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Academy of the Sciences<\/a>, Ambatovy\u2019s offset areas have been the subject of scientific expeditions, biodiversity research, and conservation activities which work with local people to safeguard natural resource sustainability.<br \/>\n<!--:-->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambatovy\u2019s commitment to the environment was acknowledged with the presentation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-media","category-ambatovy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambatovy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}