{"id":5933,"date":"2019-10-15T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"protecting-whales-to-protect-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/15\/protecting-whales-to-protect-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Whales To Protect The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By the UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whales\nare known for being the largest and most intelligent creatures in the ocean.\nNow, marine biologists have discovered that they also capture tonnes of carbon\nfrom the atmosphere, a service with an economic value of US$1 trillion for all\nthe great whales, according to a study published by the International Monetary\nFund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up\nuntil now, protecting great whales has been viewed as a human good. But the\nInternational Monetary Fund research points out that protecting whales also has\na monetary incentive, as it turns out whales are an important nature-based\nsolution to capturing carbon from human emissions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/protecting-whales-protect-planet\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the UN Environment Whales are known for being the largest and most intelligent creatures in the ocean. Now, marine biologists have discovered that they also capture tonnes of carbon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5934,"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-5933","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\/5933","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=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}