{"id":238416,"date":"2020-01-01T13:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238416"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:45:07","slug":"palau-is-first-country-to-ban-reef-toxic-sun-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/palau-is-first-country-to-ban-reef-toxic-sun-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"Palau is first country to ban \u2018reef toxic\u2019 sun cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Any sun cream is toxic.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Pacific nation of Palau has become the first country to ban sun cream that is harmful to corals and sea life.<\/p>\n<p>From Wednesday, sun cream that includes common ingredients, including oxybenzone, is not allowed to be worn or sold in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Palau&#8217;s President Tommy Remengesau said: &#8220;We have to live and respect the environment because the environment is the nest of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The island nation markets itself as a &#8220;pristine paradise&#8221; for divers.<\/p>\n<p>A lagoon in Palau&#8217;s Rock Islands is a Unesco World Heritage site. The country has a population of around 20,000 dotted across hundreds of islands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-50963080?fbclid=IwAR3nc050ab3yolu435nEsoC-AgepSdW0go7jskTe_PAfKuR5Ic60ru44kYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-50963080?fbclid=IwAR3nc050ab3yolu435nEsoC-AgepSdW0go7jskTe_PAfKuR5Ic60ru44kYg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Any sun cream is toxic. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}