{"id":72883,"date":"2025-07-15T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/15\/climate-change-mangroves-solomon-islands"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:13:50","slug":"i-couldnt-watch-the-forests-vanish-the-man-restoring-solomon-islands-vital-mangroves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72883","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I couldn\u2019t watch the forests vanish\u2019: the man restoring Solomon Islands\u2019 vital mangroves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crucial for coastal communities, mangroves are threatened by land clearing, development and rising seas<\/p>\n<p>As the morning light hits Oibola village in Solomon Islands, the receding tide drains water through a maze of tangled mangrove roots.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in muddy jeans and a worn T-shirt, Ben Waleilia moves carefully through the thick mangrove forest, searching for seedlings. Rows of young mangrove shoots stand high as Waleilia gently drops seedlings into a small plastic bucket.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/15\/climate-change-mangroves-solomon-islands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crucial for coastal communities, mangroves are threatened by land clearing, development and rising seasAs the morning light hits Oibola village in Solomon Islands, the receding tide drains water through a maze of tangled mangrove roots.Dressed in muddy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4847,"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":[41,65,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72883","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\/4847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72884,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72883\/revisions\/72884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}