{"id":29239,"date":"2025-04-08T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/?p=29239"},"modified":"2025-04-12T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T07:03:50","slug":"coral-replantation-project-conducted-at-sandy-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/?p=29239","title":{"rendered":"CORAL REPLANTATION PROJECT CONDUCTED AT SANDY BAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"29239\" class=\"elementor elementor-29239\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ce06027 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ce06027\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-58bf43f\" data-id=\"58bf43f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50e18c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"50e18c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p style=\"margin-right: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;\">A successful coral replantation project was carried out on 07<sup>th<\/sup> and 08<sup>th<\/sup> April 2025 off Sandy Bay sea area<strong>, <\/strong>as a part of the nationwide \u201cClean Sri Lanka\u201d initiative. This initiative was organized and carried out by the staff of the Diving School, reinforcing their ongoing commitment to marine conservation and environmental sustainability.<\/p><p style=\"margin-right: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;\">This impactful initiative not only contributed significantly to the restoration of marine biodiversity in the region but also provided invaluable hands on experience for the Diving School staff in advanced underwater conservation techniques.<\/p><p style=\"margin-right: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;\">Through initiatives like this, NMA continues to play a vital role in shaping environmentally conscious maritime professionals committed to preserving the marine ecosystem of Sri Lanka.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-005b570 elementor-section-boxed 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This initiative was organized and carried out by the staff of the Diving School, reinforcing their ongoing commitment to marine conservation and environmental sustainability. This impactful &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/?p=29239\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CORAL REPLANTATION PROJECT CONDUCTED AT SANDY BAY<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes"},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29254,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239\/revisions\/29254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nma.navy.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}