{"id":5354,"date":"2019-09-17T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T07:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"un-champions-whose-passion-for-the-planet-defined-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/17\/un-champions-whose-passion-for-the-planet-defined-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Champions Whose Passion For The Planet Defined Their Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By the UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the Arctic to the Amazon, wildfires have been burning, devastating storms are becoming more frequent, a million species risk extinction and our oceans are being poisoned: the planet\u2019s life support systems are under threat like never before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world\u2019s critical ecosystems need our help.\nScientists warn that we could be headed towards tipping points that might\nproduce a cascading collapse of natural systems if we do not act now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is something environmental defenders have long\nunderstood, with many putting their lives on the line to defend vital\necosystems and the indigenous peoples who protect them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/defenders-earth-un-champions-whose-passion-planet-defined-their-lives\">Read\nmore.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the UN Environment From the Arctic to the Amazon, wildfires have been burning, devastating storms are becoming more frequent, a million species risk extinction and our oceans are being&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}