{"id":49113,"date":"2022-10-06T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/the-mountains-protect-us-safeguards-sought-for-philippines-sierra-madre-shield-against-typhoons"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:14:46","slug":"the-mountains-protect-us-safeguards-sought-for-philippines-sierra-madre-shield-against-typhoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49113","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The mountains protect us\u2019: safeguards sought for Philippines\u2019 Sierra Madre shield against typhoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaliwa dam project in the Sierra Madre would be disastrous for main island\u2019s storm defences as well as biodiversity, say conservationists<\/p>\n<p>As Super Typhoon Noru <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/26\/rescuers-killed-after-super-typhoon-noru-hits-philippines\">made landfall in the Philippines last month<\/a> and people across the main island of Luzon braced for impact, the country\u2019s largest mountain range \u2013 the Sierra Madre \u2013 began to trend online.<\/p>\n<p>One image <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/genurrrr\/status\/1573862041307451393\">shared widely on Twitter<\/a> was taken from a weather report, showing Noru moving over the range.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/the-mountains-protect-us-safeguards-sought-for-philippines-sierra-madre-shield-against-typhoons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaliwa dam project in the Sierra Madre would be disastrous for main island\u2019s storm defences as well as biodiversity, say conservationistsAs Super Typhoon Noru made landfall in the Philippines last month and people across the main island of Luzon braced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,65,455,760,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-mountains","category-philippines","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\/49113","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49114,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49113\/revisions\/49114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}