{"id":50325,"date":"2014-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/119.9.3.225\/news\/2014\/03\/karama-s-hope\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T14:00:00","slug":"karama-s-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/karama-s-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Karama&#039;s Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=color:#808080;><span style=font-size:12px;><span style=font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;>The waves along the Gulf of Papua New Guinea have been slowly eating away the shorelines of the village of <strong>Karama.<\/strong> Every year, a metre of this village&#39;s shoreline disappears due to rising sea levels. The neighbouring village of <em>Toare<\/em>, has already been relocated six times, leaving its villagers displaced.     <\/p>\n<div><span style=color: rgb(128, 128, 128);><span style=font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;>Realising the continuing impacts of climate change, the people of\u00a0<strong>Karama<\/strong>\u00a0decided to stand up and fight back\u2026the environmentally-friendly way. They began planting mangroves, in order to build a natural sea wall. They are now hoping these mangroves will absorb the force of the waves, and leave them what is left of their land \u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><span style=color: rgb(128, 128, 128);><span style=font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;><strong>Karama&#39;s Hope<\/strong>\u00a0is a story about determination, vision and the human will to survive. In the next five to ten years, the villagers of Karama are expected to relocate, but this time, they will have a mangrove sea-wall as a buffer zone against the impending effects of climate change, and to sustain their way of life.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=skMsoTJ58JY%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26wmode%3Dopaque%26showinfo%3D0%26showsearch%3D0%26rel%3D0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NULL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}