{"id":33609,"date":"2021-07-01T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/new-zealand-has-lost-thousands-of-hectares-of-wetlands-in-past-decades-study-shows"},"modified":"2021-07-01T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:03:17","slug":"new-zealand-has-lost-thousands-of-hectares-of-wetlands-in-past-decades-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33609","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand has lost thousands of hectares of wetlands in past decades, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country has just 10% of its wetlands left, endangering fragile ecosystems home to threatened species<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of hectares of New Zealand\u2019s wetlands have been lost in the past twenty years, leaving the country with just 10% of its pre-European wetland areas and posing significant risks for biodiversity, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>Wetlands are considered \u201chigh value\u201d ecosystems in New Zealand and are home to a disproportionately large number of threatened birds and animals, including 67% of freshwater and estuarine fish, and 13% of endangered plants. They also play important roles capturing carbon, maintaining water quality, regulating atmospheric gases, and are culturally significant to M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/new-zealand-has-lost-thousands-of-hectares-of-wetlands-in-past-decades-study-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country has just 10% of its wetlands left, endangering fragile ecosystems home to threatened speciesThousands of hectares of New Zealand\u2019s wetlands have been lost in the past twenty years, leaving the country with just 10% of its pre-European wetland a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33609","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33610,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33609\/revisions\/33610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}