{"id":11657,"date":"2019-11-30T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/30\/saving-the-whanganui-can-personhood-rescue-a-river"},"modified":"2019-11-30T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T19:00:15","slug":"saving-the-whanganui-can-personhood-rescue-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11657","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Whanganui: can personhood rescue a river?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian travelled the length of the Whanganui in New Zealand to investigate whether new legal protections will make a difference<\/p>\n<p>Adam Daniel wades waist deep through the glassy water. Pumice stones spiral in the shallow eddy, while the shrill whistles of a male whio (blue duck) echo upstream through the green canyon walls. The mountain stream\u2019s deep current slows around a lone tree standing on a small rocky island before rushing toward the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Like a doctor, Daniel spends the morning checking the pulse of the river\u2019s upper arteries, taking temperature readings and drawing water samples to diagnose its vitality. Thirty kilometres to his south-east, the Whanganui River\u2019s pristine headwaters begin in the internationally renowned Tongariro National Park, on the western flanks of three cone volcanoes, Ruapehu, Tongariro and Ngauruhoe. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/30\/saving-the-whanganui-can-personhood-rescue-a-river\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian travelled the length of the Whanganui in New Zealand to investigate whether new legal protections will make a differenceAdam Daniel wades waist deep through the glassy water. Pumice stones spiral in the shallow eddy, while the shrill whist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"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":[41,973,456,65,56,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biodiversity","category-conservation","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-rivers"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","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\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11658,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions\/11658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}