{"id":392,"date":"2007-12-01T16:56:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T16:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/01\/sidr-damage\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T16:56:47","slug":"sidr-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/sidr-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidr Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update on the effects of Sidr on the world&#8217;s largest Mangrove Swamp.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The world&#8217;s largest mangrove forest bore the brunt of the cyclone that smashed into Bangladesh on November 15, killing more than 3,200 people and wiping out thousands of villages.&#8221;The cyclone has left huge devastation in the Sunderbans unseen for decades. Some 1,500 square kilometres (600 square miles) of the forest was damaged,&#8221; chief government forest conservation official A.K.M. Shamsuddin said.&#8221;At least seven percent of the (Bangladeshi portion of the) forest was severely damaged&#8230; while another 17 to 18 percent was partially damaged,&#8221; he told AFP, adding initial satellite images showed the extent of the destruction.The 10,000 square kilometre forest straddles the borders of Bangladesh and India&#8217;s West Bengal state and lies on the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news115728169.html\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update on the effects of Sidr on the world&#8217;s largest Mangrove Swamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}