{"id":1627,"date":"2004-07-31T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/07\/31\/\/"},"modified":"2004-07-31T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-31T14:50:00","slug":"1627","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/1627\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cooltech.iafrica.com\/science\/338321.htm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>South Africa honoured with WWF&#8217;s highest award<\/strong><\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/wwf.jpg\" alt=\"WWF Logo: Known worldwide by its panda logo, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) leads international efforts to protect endangered species and their habitats.\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>The South African government has been honoured with the World Wildife Fund&#8217;s highest award, the Gift to the Earth, for its commitment to protecting marine resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/cape-peninsula-coastline.jpg\" alt=\"Cape Peninsula Coastline\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>MPAs are the marine equivalent of national parks, and South Africa&#8217;s allow different categories of use ranging from limited fishing and controlled tourism, to full &#8220;sanctuary zones&#8221;. Future efforts would have to be directed at conserving substantial components of the continental shelf, extending into South Africa&#8217;s economic exclusion zone.<\/p>\n<p>Currently some 75 percent of the world&#8217;s commercial fish stocks were either fully or over-exploited and only some 0.5 percent of global oceans enjoyed formal protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa honoured with WWF&#8217;s highest awardThe South African government has been honoured with the World Wildife Fund&#8217;s highest award, the Gift to the Earth, for its commitment to protecting marine resources. MPAs are the marine equivalent of national parks, and South Africa&#8217;s allow different categories of use ranging from limited fishing and controlled tourism, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}