{"id":1155,"date":"2018-04-10T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2018-04-10T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:00:02","slug":"the-importance-of-trees-for-tropical-cattle-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2018\/04\/10\/the-importance-of-trees-for-tropical-cattle-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of trees for tropical cattle welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1156\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1156 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/04\/mancera-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/04\/mancera-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/04\/mancera-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/04\/mancera-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/04\/mancera.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">QuickBird satellite image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Livestock production in Latin America is strongly associated with deforestation but there is also evidence that animal welfare is improved by tree coverage. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-018-0497-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mancera et al.<\/a> recently showed reductions in cattle skin injuries and overall better cattle body condition in ranches with more than 10% of tree coverage, thus improving livestock production.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-018-0497-3'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Livestock production in Latin America is strongly associated with deforestation but there is also evidence that animal welfare is improved by tree coverage. Scientists Mancera et al. recently showed reductions in cattle skin injuries and overall better cattle body condition in ranches with more than 10% of tree coverage, thus improving livestock production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-livestock-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}