{
  "id": 786679,
  "title": "Timor green pigeon nears extinction after decades of inaction, study warns",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/timor-green-pigeon-nears-extinction-after-decades-of-inaction-study",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-13T16:31:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/timor-green-pigeon-nears-extinction-after-decades-of-inaction-study-warns/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "On April 20, Jafet Potenzo Lopes was surveying the south coast of Manatuto municipality, in Timor-Leste, when he recorded something he had not seen in years: three Timor green pigeons, alive, in a location where the species had never been documented before. Lopes is one of Timor-Leste’s few field ecologists. He was born and raised […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}