{"id":10274,"date":"2019-10-20T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/20\/cook-islands-manager-of-worlds-biggest-marine-park-says-she-lost-job-for-backing-sea-mining-moratorium"},"modified":"2019-10-20T04:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T19:00:40","slug":"cook-islands-manager-of-worlds-biggest-marine-park-says-she-lost-job-for-backing-sea-mining-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10274","title":{"rendered":"Cook Islands: manager of world&#8217;s biggest marine park says she lost job for backing sea mining moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalist Jacqueline Evans says she was dismissed from the Marae Moana for urging caution on deep-sea mining<\/p>\n<p>The public champion of the world\u2019s largest marine reserve \u2013 the Cook Islands\u2019 Marae Moana \u2013 has said she lost her job managing it because she supported a moratorium on seabed mining in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Six months ago, Jacqueline Evans won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LXpKLC-CB30\">Goldman Environmental prize<\/a> \u2013 the world\u2019s foremost environmental award \u2013 for her work establishing Marae Moana (meaning \u201csacred ocean\u201d), which covers the Cook Islands\u2019 entire exclusive economic zone of more than 1.9m sq km.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/20\/cook-islands-manager-of-worlds-biggest-marine-park-says-she-lost-job-for-backing-sea-mining-moratorium\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalist Jacqueline Evans says she was dismissed from the Marae Moana for urging caution on deep-sea miningThe public champion of the world\u2019s largest marine reserve \u2013 the Cook Islands\u2019 Marae Moana \u2013 has said she lost her job managing it because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,855,65,468,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cook-islands","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-mining"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10275,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions\/10275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}