{"id":43308,"date":"2011-01-21T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43308"},"modified":"2011-01-21T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T15:02:23","slug":"birdwatchers-threaten-kiteboarders-with-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43308","title":{"rendered":"Birdwatchers threaten kiteboarders with lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SurferToday has been following the controversy between the Northland Regional Council, in New Zealand, and the local kiteboarding community. In October 2010, birdwatchers wanted to ban kiteboarders from the Ruakaka estuary, in the Northern region of the country, as they defended that the sport was disturbing wildlife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Recently, the battle has intensified and David Kay, kiteboarder and instructor, has been threatened with prosecution after &#8220;being seen disturbing birds at the Ruakaka Wildlife Refuge\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/kiteboarding\/4843-birdwatchers-threaten-kiteboarders-with-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SurferToday has been following the controversy between the Northland Regional Council, in New Zealand, and the local kiteboarding community. In October 2010, birdwatchers wanted to ban kiteboarders from the Ruakaka estuary, in the Northern region of the country, as they defended that the sport was disturbing wildlife. Recently, the battle has intensified and David Kay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43309,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43308\/revisions\/43309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}