{"id":203863,"date":"2025-08-03T03:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/seychelles-harare-wetland-destruction-sparks-outcry-days-after-cop15-in-victoria-falls\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T03:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:02:50","slug":"seychelles-harare-wetland-destruction-sparks-outcry-days-after-cop15-in-victoria-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/seychelles-harare-wetland-destruction-sparks-outcry-days-after-cop15-in-victoria-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Seychelles: Harare Wetland Destruction Sparks Outcry Days After COP15 in Victoria Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><em>By Takudzwa Tondoya<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has slammed the City of Harare for allowing construction activities on protected wetland areas in Tafara barely a week after Zimbabwe hosted the prestigious Ramsar COP15 Conference on wetland protection in Victoria Falls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">CHRA expressed outrage over the continued development on the Gosden wetland near Mabvuku Cemetery calling it a &#8220;flagrant violation&#8221; of environmental regulations and a betrayal of international commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">&#8220;We&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010306.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>By Takudzwa Tondoya The Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has slammed the City of Harare for allowing construction activities on protected wetland areas in Tafara barely a week after Zimbabwe hosted the prestigious Ramsar COP15 Conference on wetland protection in Victoria Falls. CHRA expressed outrage over the continued development on the Gosden wetland near Mabvuku [&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":[258,256,42246,6192,15372,7668,500,257,10912,14471,254,9617,6921,33631,421],"class_list":["post-203863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cop15","tag-days","tag-destruction","tag-falls","tag-harare","tag-news","tag-outcry","tag-seychelles","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-victoria","tag-wetland","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203863","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=203863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203863\/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=203863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}