{"id":65511,"date":"2026-02-05T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/florida-euthanizes-5000-iguanas-after-cold-snap-stuns-the-invasive-reptiles\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:57:06","slug":"florida-euthanizes-5000-iguanas-after-cold-snap-stuns-the-invasive-reptiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/florida-euthanizes-5000-iguanas-after-cold-snap-stuns-the-invasive-reptiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida euthanizes 5,000 iguanas after cold snap stuns the invasive reptiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State culled a number of the non-native reptiles after thousands were \u2018cold-stunned\u2019 and dropped from trees<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> say they euthanized more than 5,000 non-native iguanas in the state after hordes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/reptiles\">reptiles<\/a> froze and fell from trees in this week\u2019s cold snap.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida fish and wildlife commission (FWC) authorized the first officially sanctioned cull of \u201ccold-stunned\u201d iguanas as temperatures plunged below freezing in many areas of the state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/05\/florida-frozen-iguanas-euthanized\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State culled a number of the non-native reptiles after thousands were \u2018cold-stunned\u2019 and dropped from trees Wildlife officials in Florida say they euthanized more than 5,000 non-native iguanas in the state after hordes of the reptiles froze and fell from trees in this week\u2019s cold snap. The Florida fish and wildlife commission (FWC) authorized the &#8230; <a title=\"Florida euthanizes 5,000 iguanas after cold snap stuns the invasive reptiles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/florida-euthanizes-5000-iguanas-after-cold-snap-stuns-the-invasive-reptiles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida euthanizes 5,000 iguanas after cold snap stuns the invasive reptiles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}