{"id":57576,"date":"2018-11-29T05:11:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T05:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57576"},"modified":"2018-11-29T05:11:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T05:11:17","slug":"sri-lankas-mangrove-master-the-man-who-spent-16-years-of-his-life-planting-2-million-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/11\/29\/sri-lankas-mangrove-master-the-man-who-spent-16-years-of-his-life-planting-2-million-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s Mangrove Master : The man who spent 16 years of his life planting 2 million trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mangrove trees are of utmost importance, especially in coastal areas, where they are the\u00a0best defense against tidal waves and tsunamis.\u00a0Many poor fisher families in western Sri Lanka also rely heavily on mangroves for sustenance, with generation after generation deriving protein sources from the rich waters or sustainably harvesting the forests\u2019 many by-products.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0deforestation has put the trees in a precarious position, but one man has dedicated his entire life to protecting them.\u00a0Douglas Thisera, also known as the \u201cMangrove Master\u201d, has\u00a0planted over 2 million mangrove saplings across his home country of Sri Lanka in a bid to preserve the precious foliage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love mangrove forests very much,\u201d Thisera told Great Big Story. \u201cI can compare my attachment to mangroves like the connection between a tree and its bark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/mangrove-master-has-planted-2-million-saplings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/mangrove-master-has-planted-2-million-saplings\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mangrove trees are of utmost importance, especially in coastal areas, where they are the\u00a0best defense against tidal waves and tsunamis.\u00a0Many poor fisher families in western Sri Lanka also rely heavily on mangroves for sustenance, with generation after generation deriving protein sources from the rich waters or sustainably harvesting the forests\u2019 many by-products. However,\u00a0deforestation has put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}