{"id":21692,"date":"2022-02-02T18:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2022\/02\/02\/dr-congos-mangroves-national-park-preserving-a-wetland-of-international-importance\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:10:50","slug":"dr-congos-mangroves-national-park-preserving-a-wetland-of-international-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2022\/02\/02\/dr-congos-mangroves-national-park-preserving-a-wetland-of-international-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo&rsquo;s Mangroves National Park: Preserving a wetland of international importance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This Wednesday is International Wetlands Day. Worldwide, wetlands cover 12.1 million km\u00b2. But more than 30 percent\u00a0have been lost over the past 50 years, despite them playing a crucial role in\u00a0mitigating the impact of climate change. One example is the Mangroves National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It&rsquo;s the only marine park in the country\u00a0and it&rsquo;s home to a wide variety of plants and rare animals, including sea turtles. But the park is increasingly threatened by poaching and illegal logging. The construction of a deep water port in the vicinity has also sparked controversy. Our correspondents report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Wednesday is International Wetlands Day. Worldwide, wetlands cover 12.1 million km\u00b2. But more than 30 percent\u00a0have been lost over the past 50 years, despite them playing a crucial role in\u00a0mitigating the impact of climate change. One example is the Mangroves National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It&rsquo;s the only marine park in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-21692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}