{"id":1212,"date":"2010-11-01T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2011-05-30T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T13:03:42","slug":"lifeweb-partnership-gives-multi-million-dollar-boost-to-protected-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/01\/lifeweb-partnership-gives-multi-million-dollar-boost-to-protected-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"LifeWeb partnership gives multi-million dollar boost to protected areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>United Nations Environment Programme, Press Release, 28 October 2010<\/h5>\n<h4><strong>Spain-UNEP LifeWeb Partnership to Raise Incomes and Improve Conservation in Protected Areas in Asia, Africa and Latin America <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/hqweb.unep.org\/NewsCentre\/InsertImage.asp?ImageSizeID=3&amp;DocumentID=649&amp;ArticleID=6804\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"167\" \/><strong>Nagoya, Japan,\u00a0 28 October 2010<\/strong>. More than  fifteen protected areas, including one managing monk seals off  Mauritania and another in Sumatra that is home to orangutans, tigers and  elephants, are to receive a US$6.8 million conservation boost.<\/p>\n<p>Today, at the 10th Conference of the Parties  to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, the  government of Spain and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced a  new partnership for protected areas under the LifeWeb initiative.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The partnership, supporting mainly low income  and developing countries, aims to deliver benefits not just for  biodiversity but for communities living in and around protected areas. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The protected areas to benefit from the UNEP-Spain LifeWeb partnership include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Banc d&#8217;Arguin National Park in Mauritania<\/strong> where funds will  support the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal and its  associated habitats. Surveillance measures will be reinforced in the  Satellite Reserve of Cap Blanc to help conserve, the natural habitat of  the seal and seal populations in the region. Funds will also go towards  public awareness activities in the marine protected areas. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hqweb.unep.org\/Documents.Multilingual\/Default.asp?DocumentID=649&amp;ArticleID=6804&amp;l=en&amp;t=long\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Environment Programme, Press Release, 28 October 2010 Spain-UNEP LifeWeb Partnership to Raise Incomes and Improve Conservation in Protected Areas in Asia, Africa and Latin America Nagoya, Japan,\u00a0 28 October 2010. More than fifteen protected areas, including one managing monk seals off Mauritania and another in Sumatra that is home to orangutans, tigers and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/01\/lifeweb-partnership-gives-multi-million-dollar-boost-to-protected-areas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LifeWeb partnership gives multi-million dollar boost to protected areas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediterranean-news","category-med-monk-seal","category-mauritania-western-sahara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}