{"id":59967,"date":"2023-11-20T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/nov\/20\/the-shrinking-sea-why-the-caspian-is-under-threat-a-photo-essay"},"modified":"2023-11-20T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:00:33","slug":"the-shrinking-sea-why-the-caspian-is-under-threat-a-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59967","title":{"rendered":"The shrinking sea: why the Caspian is under threat \u2013 a photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the rivers that feed it drying up, less rainfall and a hotter climate, the world\u2019s largest inland body of water is in peril. With five countries sharing it, can the political will to save this unique habitat be found?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Text and photographs by Christian Sinibaldi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2018I used to jump from this rock into the sea just 10 years ago,\u201d says Azamat Sarsenbayev, a 33-year-old videographer and environmental activist. \u201cNow people are sitting on rocks that were once under water. I remember, as a kid, the sea was much deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his Instagram page, Sarsenbayev highlights the natural beauty of the Mangystau area of western Kazakhstan where he grew up, including stunning drone footage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CHuyxIzAgQn\/\">thousands of flamingos <\/a>that migrate here.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/nov\/20\/the-shrinking-sea-why-the-caspian-is-under-threat-a-photo-essay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the rivers that feed it drying up, less rainfall and a hotter climate, the world\u2019s largest inland body of water is in peril. With five countries sharing it, can the political will to save this unique habitat be found?Text and photographs by Christ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[456,1089,65,3021,262,468,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-endangered-habitats","category-environment","category-iucn-red-list-of-endangered-species","category-kazakhstan","category-marine-life","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","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\/59967","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59967\/revisions\/59968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}