{"id":236965,"date":"2026-06-21T04:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-we-only-have-one-ocean-kenyas-mother-mangrove-calls-for-urgent-ocean-protection\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:36:30","slug":"kenya-we-only-have-one-ocean-kenyas-mother-mangrove-calls-for-urgent-ocean-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-we-only-have-one-ocean-kenyas-mother-mangrove-calls-for-urgent-ocean-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;We Only Have One Ocean&#8217; &#8211; Kenya&#8217;s &#8216;Mother Mangrove&#8217; Calls for Urgent Ocean Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Mombasa, Kenya \u2014 In Kenya, community conservationists are leading the charge to restore carbon-rich mangroves. Zulfa Hassan has inspired women to rehabilitate damaged mangrove forest ecosystems, restoring marine life and securing livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">Mangroves are among the most carbon-rich forests in the world because of their high carbon content. The mangrove ecosystem supports significant marine biodiversity and human well-being and is one of the most beneficial ecosystems. Fish breed in these&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606170002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mombasa, Kenya \u2014 In Kenya, community conservationists are leading the charge to restore carbon-rich mangroves. Zulfa Hassan has inspired women to rehabilitate damaged mangrove forest ecosystems, restoring marine life and securing livelihoods. Mangroves are among the most carbon-rich forests in the world because of their high carbon content. The mangrove ecosystem supports significant marine biodiversity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":236966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681718:63163c17c025229b0e162a1be2aee133:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6137,4688,430,6097,26219,7753,257,10360,7897,254,11318],"class_list":["post-236965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-mangrove","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-ocean","tag-protection","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681718:63163c17c025229b0e162a1be2aee133:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236965","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}