{"id":70573,"date":"2024-02-07T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/?p=70573"},"modified":"2024-02-07T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T17:24:09","slug":"world-wetlands-day-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/world-wetlands-day-observed\/","title":{"rendered":"World Wetlands Day observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-70574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2024\/02\/thanneer-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2024\/02\/thanneer-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2024\/02\/thanneer-1024x623.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2024\/02\/thanneer-1536x935.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2024\/02\/thanneer.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commemorative event honouring the World Wetlands Day was organised by the School of Environmental Sciences at Mahatma Gandhi University. Students and teachers cleared plastic debris from the Pathiramanal Island located in Vembanad Lake and raised awareness among tourists on the impact of plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The collected waste was handed over to the processing units. Dr. Thomson Davis, the Kottayam District Coordinator for the State Biodiversity Board,\u00a0 delivered the message. As an integral facet of the programme, the water quality of Vembanad lake was also assessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Associate Professor Dr. V.P. Sylas, Dr. H.T. Harsha, Dr. Kannan, Dr. Babu, Dr. R.S. Prashant, Dr. Keerthy Suresh, Devika P. Sajan and Athira led the event.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commemorative event honouring the World Wetlands Day was organised by the School of Environmental Sciences at Mahatma Gandhi University. Students and teachers cleared plastic debris from the Pathiramanal Island located in Vembanad Lake and raised awareness among tourists on the impact of plastic pollution. The collected waste was handed over to the processing units. Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70575,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70573\/revisions\/70575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}