{"id":3151,"date":"2022-07-12T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:00:06","slug":"kisite-mpunguti-marine-park-attends-the-blue-park-award-ceremony-at-the-ocean-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/2022\/07\/12\/kisite-mpunguti-marine-park-attends-the-blue-park-award-ceremony-at-the-ocean-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park attends the Blue Park Award Ceremony at the Ocean Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3178\" src=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG-20220701-WA0004-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG-20220701-WA0004-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG-20220701-WA0004-1.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>Dr. Mohammed Said Omar and Warden Dadley Tsiganyiu from Kenya Wildlife Service, together with Arthur Tuda ( WIOMSA), were on hand at the United Nations Ocean Conference to attend the 2022\u00a0 Blue Park Award Ceremony\u00a0 and to collect the plague for the 2021 Blue Parks Award accorded to Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The award was presented by the President of the \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marine-conservation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\">Marine Conservation Institute<\/a>, Dr. Lance Morgan, on 1st July 2022. The Blue Park Award recognizes outstanding efforts by national governments, nonprofit organizations, MPA managers, and local communities to effectively protect marine ecosystems now and for the future. The award has been given annually since its launch in 2017.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mohammed Said Omar and Warden Dadley Tsiganyiu from Kenya Wildlife Service, together with Arthur Tuda ( WIOMSA), were on hand at the United Nations Ocean Conference to attend the 2022\u00a0 Blue Park Award Ceremony\u00a0 and to collect the plague for the 2021 Blue Parks Award accorded to Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park. The award was<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/2022\/07\/12\/kisite-mpunguti-marine-park-attends-the-blue-park-award-ceremony-at-the-ocean-conference\/\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,91,227,225],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events","tag-blue-park-award","tag-kenya","tag-kisite-mpunguti-marine-park","tag-united-nations-ocean-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}