{"id":621,"date":"2024-10-30T16:11:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=621"},"modified":"2024-10-30T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:11:49","slug":"south-africa-goes-all-out-to-protect-cetaceans-suspends-coastal-octopus-fishing-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/south-africa-goes-all-out-to-protect-cetaceans-suspends-coastal-octopus-fishing-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa goes all out to protect cetaceans, suspends coastal octopus fishing operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><font><\/font>November 9, 2024 &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Barbara Cressy, has said that a moratorium on octopus fishing off the country&#8217;s coasts will be in place from November 15 in order to protect large marine mammals such as cetaceans. September 27-29 is the annual \u201cWhale Festival\u201d in the South African coastal town of Hermanus, however, in recent years, by the deterioration of the ecological environment and human activities, the survival of whales has been seriously threatened, and this year&#8217;s \u201cWhale Festival\u201d even This year&#8217;s \u201cWhale Festival\u201d even became a festival with few whales visiting, a worrying phenomenon. Against this backdrop, the South African government&#8217;s initiatives to protect marine life have become increasingly urgent and necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 9, 2024 &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Barbara Cressy, has said that a moratorium on octopus fishing off the country&#8217;s coasts will be in place from November 15 in order to protect large marine mammals such as cetaceans. September 27-29 is the annual \u201cWhale Festival\u201d in the South African coastal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cetacean-conservation"],"views":327,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}