{"content":[{"text":"World Environment Day 2021","bbox":{"left":0.331062,"top":0.043204,"width":0.33761199999999997,"height":0.027909999999999997}},{"text":"Ecosystem Restoration","bbox":{"left":0.409886,"top":0.214525,"width":0.18011700000000008,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"World Environment Day (WED) \n World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on 5 June following a resolution adopted by \n the United Nations General Assembly at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in \n 1972. It is the biggest environmental event celebrated worldwide to raise awareness and generate \n global actions on pressing environmental issues.","bbox":{"left":0.094118,"top":0.24754,"width":0.8116039999999999,"height":0.10223499999999999}},{"text":"WED 2021 Theme \n This year, the theme for WED 2021 is ‘Ecosystem Restoration’. Ecosystem is a biological \n community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. It supports all life on Earth, \n provides us with clean air, food, water and absorbs our wastes. We rely on ecosystems to regulate the \n climate and balance of the natural environment. All over the world, ecosystems face massive threats \n particularly owing to human activities. Every year, the world loses 10 million hectares of forests – \n That’s an area of about 49 times the size of the Republic of Mauritius.","bbox":{"left":0.094118,"top":0.360003,"width":0.811928,"height":0.13591299999999995}},{"text":"The United Nations has declared this decade as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration dedicated to \n the protection and the revival of degraded ecosystems all over the world. \n According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Mauritius ranks third with the \n most endangered terrestrial flora in the world. At present, only 2% of native forest remains. Coral \n bleaching with a loss up to 56% of the remaining live coral cover has been observed in certain lagoons. \n Coastal erosion has increased to as much as 20 metres in some areas of the island over the last decade. \n With an accelerating rise in sea level, greater areas of the coastal zone are likely to be eroded. \n A rise in the frequency of high intensity rainfall in a short lapse of time has been witnessed in the past \n years. \n Some key actions being taken by the Government for our ecosystem restoration \n  Rehabilitation of some 7.1 kilometres of eroded coastline during the last five years. \n Rehabilitation works are ongoing over some 1.8 kilometres at Pointe aux Feuilles to Grand \n Sable and Providence. Furthermore, 800 metres of the shoreline have been rehabilitated by \n replacing casuarinas with endemic and native trees which are better adapted to the dynamic \n situation of the coastal zone.","bbox":{"left":0.094118,"top":0.50671,"width":0.812105,"height":0.315856}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.123569,"top":0.834136,"width":0.009018999999999985,"height":0.018561999999999967}},{"text":"Plantation of 20 000 mangroves at Grand Sable, placement of 995 artificial reef units in the \n lagoon and rehabilitation of some 450 metres of the shoreline by planting endemic trees at Mon \n Choisy.","bbox":{"left":0.15298,"top":0.833414,"width":0.7530260000000001,"height":0.055055999999999994}},{"text":"","bbox":{"left":0.123569,"top":0.900222,"width":0.009018999999999985,"height":0.018561999999999967}},{"text":"The Environment Protection Act and the National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (2003) are being \n reviewed to cater for new challenges such as impacts of increased marine traffic and increased \n risks of oil spills within the territorial waters.","bbox":{"left":0.15298,"top":0.8995,"width":0.752412,"height":0.05506100000000003}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.422386,"top":0.084798,"width":0.15768,"height":0.116162},{"left":0.821895,"top":0.02399,"width":0.127451,"height":0.102904}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.422386,"top":0.084798,"width":0.15768,"height":0.116162},{"left":0.821895,"top":0.02399,"width":0.127451,"height":0.102904}]}