{"id":37669,"date":"2021-10-05T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/05\/photos-show-manila-bay-mangroves-choking-in-plastic-pollution"},"modified":"2021-10-05T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:13:15","slug":"photos-show-manila-bay-mangroves-choking-in-plastic-pollution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37669","title":{"rendered":"Photos show Manila Bay mangroves \u2018choking\u2019 in plastic pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Navotas mudflats are among the last of their kind and act as a crucial feeding ground for migratory birds, but they are being buried in plastic<\/p>\n<p>There are stray, abandoned flip flops, old foil food wrappers, crumpled plastic bags, and discarded water bottles. The Navotas mudflats and mangroves in Manila Bay are buried in a thick layer of rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u201calmost choking the mangrove roots,\u201d Diuvs de Jesus, a marine biologist in the Philippines who photographed the area on a recent visit, said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/05\/photos-show-manila-bay-mangroves-choking-in-plastic-pollution\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navotas mudflats are among the last of their kind and act as a crucial feeding ground for migratory birds, but they are being buried in plasticThere are stray, abandoned flip flops, old foil food wrappers, crumpled plastic bags, and discarded water&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"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":[41,65,55,466,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-philippines","category-pollution","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\/37669","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37672,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37669\/revisions\/37672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}