{"id":7343,"date":"2020-01-08T12:07:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T09:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"one-mangrove-a-thousand-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/08\/one-mangrove-a-thousand-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"One Mangrove, A Thousand Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By the UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mangrove\necosystems support the planet and people in unique ways. Many Nigerians living\nnear the river in Cross River State know that. \u201cMangroves provide the best\nfirewood, as people who roast fish know,\u201d says Idem Williamson, a villager\nliving in Esierebom community in Cross River State. \u201cBut by cutting the wood,\nthe mangroves disappeared. And without the mangroves, water floods our houses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nneed to restore mangroves inspired Williamson to get involved for a REDD+\nproject that saw the whole community come together to plant more than 10,000\nseedlings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe positive effect is that it controls the level of water coming in from the rivers and allows us to use the creeks for fishing. And we can pick the unwanted branches of the mangroves in specific areas for firewood.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/one-mangrove-thousand-hopes\">Read more&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the UN Environment Mangrove ecosystems support the planet and people in unique ways. Many Nigerians living near the river in Cross River State know that. \u201cMangroves provide the best&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7344,"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-7343","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\/7343","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=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}