{"id":175,"date":"2020-05-15T05:46:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/?p=175"},"modified":"2020-08-26T06:13:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T06:13:33","slug":"dr-lara-ainley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Dr Lara AINLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Ministry of Marine Ressources, Cook Islands<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr Lara Ainley is a marine scientist with interests in applied science, marine resources, management and conservation. After completing a PhD in Marine Ecology in (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), Lara began working as Senior Marine Ecologist at the Ministry of Marine Resources in the Cook Islands.Here, Lara plays a leading role in developing and implementingmarine resource and coral reef monitoring and management activities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cook Islands is comprised of 15 islands spread across 2 million square kilometres of ocean and approximately 13 degrees of latitude. Every island has significant coral reef habitat which plays a fundamental role in supporting biodiversity and local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These habitats are particularly susceptible to the continued environmental degradation resulting from both human pressures and the impacts of climate change. I present an overview of coral reef habitat status and trends in the Cook Islands and discuss an appetite for targeted conservation-based research, habitat restoration and sustainable management programs in the Cook Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Marine Ressources, Cook Islands Dr Lara Ainley is a marine scientist with interests in applied science, marine resources, management and conservation. After completing a PhD in Marine Ecology in (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), Lara began working as Senior Marine Ecologist at the Ministry of Marine Resources in the Cook Islands.Here, Lara plays a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members","category-other-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manaco.ird.nc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}