{"id":87353,"date":"2020-08-18T19:53:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16945"},"modified":"2020-08-18T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T14:23:38","slug":"kenyas-coast-is-losing-huge-amounts-of-seagrass-unep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kenyas-coast-is-losing-huge-amounts-of-seagrass-unep\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\u2019s coast is losing huge amounts of seagrass: UNEP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The UN environmental programme has released a report warning that fishing trawlers, seaweed farming and tourism off the coast of Kenya is threatening the survival of seagrasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Seagrass: <\/strong>These are flowering marine plants that have adapted to survive in marine conditions.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Where are they found? <\/strong>They are mostly found in shallow sandy bottom habitats and can form dense extensive meadows.There are about 72 seagrass species distributed across the world\u2019s temperate and tropical oceans.<\/li><li><strong>Significance:<\/strong><ul><li>They are known as the &#8220;lungs of the sea&#8221; because one square meter of seagrass can generate 10 liters of oxygen every day through photosynthesis.<\/li><li>Seagrasses can trap sediments to absorb nutrients and give us clear waters.<\/li><li>They are a source of food, shelter and nursery areas for many organisms, including commercially important fish.<\/li><li>They are also important carbon sinks capable of trapping carbon from the atmosphere 40 times faster than tropical rainforests and storing it for hundreds of years.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Threats to Seagrasses: a) <\/strong>Climate change <strong>b) <\/strong>Global warming <strong>c) <\/strong>Erosion and Sediment discharge <strong>d) <\/strong>Overfishing <strong>e) <\/strong>Pollution among others.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The UN environmental programme has released a report warning that fishing trawlers, seaweed farming and tourism off the coast of Kenya is threatening the survival of seagrasses. Facts: Seagrass: These are flowering marine plants that have adapted to survive in marine conditions.&nbsp; Where are they found? They are mostly found in shallow sandy bottom&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kenyas-coast-is-losing-huge-amounts-of-seagrass-unep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenya\u2019s coast is losing huge amounts of seagrass: UNEP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5104,5105,2974],"class_list":["post-87353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-kenya","tag-seagrasses","tag-unep","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702931036},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}