{"id":8410,"date":"2013-01-14T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T12:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:55:35","slug":"sand-mining-leads-to-coastal-erosion-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2013\/01\/sand-mining-leads-to-coastal-erosion-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand mining leads to coastal erosion in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Sierra Leone&#8217;s booming construction industry is a ray of hope to many in a country which has experienced a devastating, decade-long civil war. It is, however, threatening both environmental and economic damage through widespread sand mining on the country&#8217;s beaches. These mining activities have been linked to coastal erosion which has caused buildings and homes to collapse into the sea; in some places the rate of erosion is as much as six metres per year. The beaches&#8217; economic significance is in a burgeoning surfing and beach tourism industry which promises economic growth to the country if these resources are preserved.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone&#8217;s booming construction industry is a ray of hope to many in a country which has experienced a devastating, decade-long civil war. It is, however, threatening both environmental and economic damage through widespread sand mining on the country&#8217;s beaches. These mining activities have been linked to coastal erosion which has caused buildings and homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}