{"id":186919,"date":"2024-12-20T01:39:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-saving-lake-chivero-from-pollution\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T01:39:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T23:39:09","slug":"zimbabwe-saving-lake-chivero-from-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-saving-lake-chivero-from-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Saving Lake Chivero From Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Innocent Mujeri \u2014 Lake Chivero, one of Zimbabwe&#8217;s most vital water bodies and a Ramsar-listed site, is once again in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The recent cyanobacterial contamination, which claimed the lives of four rhinos, zebras, wildebeests, and other wildlife, is a reminder of the severe dangers of pollution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">It is not just a wildlife crisis; it is an environmental and public health emergency. Immediate, coordinated, and sustainable actions are required to save this critical&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412190564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innocent Mujeri \u2014 Lake Chivero, one of Zimbabwe&#8217;s most vital water bodies and a Ramsar-listed site, is once again in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. The recent cyanobacterial contamination, which claimed the lives of four rhinos, zebras, wildebeests, and other wildlife, is a reminder of the severe dangers of pollution. It is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,32139,6920,257,10362,8418,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-186919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chivero","tag-lake","tag-news","tag-pollution","tag-saving","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}