{"id":207041,"date":"2025-09-13T22:57:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-ichkeul-national-park-one-of-worlds-rare-wetlands-faces-climate-change-challenges\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:57:43","slug":"tunisia-ichkeul-national-park-one-of-worlds-rare-wetlands-faces-climate-change-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-ichkeul-national-park-one-of-worlds-rare-wetlands-faces-climate-change-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Ichkeul National Park, One of World&#8217;s Rare Wetlands, Faces Climate Change Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Tunis\/Tunisia \u2014 Bizerte, Sept. 11 (TAP\/Spotlight on Regions &#8211; Omayma Larfaoui) &#8211; On the slopes of Mount Mater in the governorate of Bizerte, overlooking the majestic Mount Ichkeul, lies one of the world&#8217;s rarest wetlands and a sanctuary for thousands of waterbirds: Ichkeul National Park, a natural jewel hosting unique biodiversity in northern Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Its green hills, tranquil lakes, forests and plains captivate visitors and researchers alike. A visit to the park is not only a journey into the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120602.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis\/Tunisia \u2014 Bizerte, Sept. 11 (TAP\/Spotlight on Regions &#8211; Omayma Larfaoui) &#8211; On the slopes of Mount Mater in the governorate of Bizerte, overlooking the majestic Mount Ichkeul, lies one of the world&#8217;s rarest wetlands and a sanctuary for thousands of waterbirds: Ichkeul National Park, a natural jewel hosting unique biodiversity in northern Tunisia. Its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":207042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6977,7796,6239,5080,52329,6687,257,7191,18582,254,4703,653,19274,7787],"class_list":["post-207041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-faces","tag-ichkeul","tag-national","tag-news","tag-park","tag-rare","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-wetlands","tag-worlds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207041","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}