{"id":203885,"date":"2025-08-03T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-wetlands-or-wastelands-danchurchaid-urges-zimbabwes-corporates-to-step-up-for-nature\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:03:56","slug":"zimbabwe-wetlands-or-wastelands-danchurchaid-urges-zimbabwes-corporates-to-step-up-for-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-wetlands-or-wastelands-danchurchaid-urges-zimbabwes-corporates-to-step-up-for-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Wetlands or Wastelands? Danchurchaid Urges Zimbabwe&#8217;s Corporates to Step Up for Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Development agency DanChurchAid has urged corporate Zimbabwe to join forces with communities and civil society in protecting the country&#8217;s fragile wetland ecosystems, warning that failure to act could come at a grave cost to both people and the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Speaking on the sidelines of the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands recently held in Victoria Falls, Mads Lindegard, DanChurchAid Zimbabwe Country Director, called for urgent and inclusive collaboration on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010304.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>Development agency DanChurchAid has urged corporate Zimbabwe to join forces with communities and civil society in protecting the country&#8217;s fragile wetland ecosystems, warning that failure to act could come at a grave cost to both people and the planet. Speaking on the sidelines of the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Ramsar Convention on [&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":[258,256,23886,52021,16143,257,254,5165,6810,52020,19274,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-203885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corporates","tag-danchurchaid","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-step","tag-urges","tag-wastelands","tag-wetlands","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203885","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=203885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203885\/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=203885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}