{"id":474,"date":"2022-06-15T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/06\/15\/how-the-gambias-oyster-farmers-are-being-hit-by-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:22:46","slug":"how-the-gambias-oyster-farmers-are-being-hit-by-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"How The Gambia\u2019s oyster farmers are being hit by climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Oyster farming in The Gambia is completely dominated by women, who harvest, process and market the oysters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But they are now seeing their livelihoods slowly disappear &#8211; party because of climate change, which is affecting the mangrove ecosystem where the oysters grow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">They are experiencing higher surface temperatures, rising sea levels, acidification and changes in ocean currents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">If CO2 emissions remain high, by the end of the century oyster stocks are projected to decline by up to 80%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Jean Otalor. Filmed and edited by Joshua Akinyemi<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-61788524?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Oyster farming in The Gambia is completely dominated by women, who harvest, process and market the oysters. But they are now seeing their livelihoods slowly disappear &#8211; party because &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}