{"id":16952,"date":"2013-12-12T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/paul-walker-helped-save-mentawais-pristine-coral-reefs-from-illegal-bombing\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T09:32:00","slug":"paul-walker-helped-save-mentawais-pristine-coral-reefs-from-illegal-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/12\/paul-walker-helped-save-mentawais-pristine-coral-reefs-from-illegal-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Walker helped Save Mentawai\u2019s pristine Coral Reefs from Illegal bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>The world was shaken on Saturday, 30<\/span><sup>th<\/sup><span>\u00a0November 2013 when 40 years old actor\u00a0<\/span><strong>Paul Walker<\/strong><span>\u00a0\u00a0passed away in an unfortunate car crash in Santa Clarita, California.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Best known for his recurring role as Brian O\u2019Conner in the \u201cFast and Furious\u201d action movie series, it turned out that Paul\u00a0 had also played a significant role in saving one of Indonesia\u2019s paradises: \u00a0the pristine coral reefs of the\u00a0<strong><a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/id.indonesia.travel\/en\/destination\/62\/mentawai-island\" href=\"http:\/\/id.indonesia.travel\/en\/destination\/62\/mentawai-island\">Mentawai Islands<\/a><\/strong>, off the coast of West Sumatra.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.indonesia.travel\/public\/media\/images\/upload\/news\/People%20of%20%20Mentawai%20(14).jpg\" height=\"205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indonesia.travel\/public\/media\/images\/upload\/news\/People%20of%20%20Mentawai%20(14).jpg\" width=\"307\"><span>The death of the actor, who also played alongside Indonesian actor Joe Taslim in the most recent series of Fast and Furious, \u00a0caused a deep grief among the\u00a0<strong>Mentawai People\u2019s Alliance<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Aliansi Masyarakat Mentawai<\/em>) who acknowledged his brief but important role in raising awareness of the destruction of coral reefs around the western Indonesian islands caused by \u00a0illegal fishing. \u201cWe deeply mourn the passing of Paul Walker\u201d stated the Alliance as reported \u00a0in\u00a0<a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.tempo.co\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tempo.co\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>tempo.co<\/em><\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>The Mentawai People\u2019s Alliance explained that last year, \u00a0numerous fishing boats sailed to the islands, bombing coral reefs , thus killing marine life to haul in fish catch. The illegal fishing did not only destroy the coral reefs and threaten the underwater marvels, but also threatened the livelihood of the local villagers. \u201cWe decided to upload the documentary video on YouTube on the damage done, and started an online petition at\u00a0<a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>change.org<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u201d the Alliance wrote.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>The video and petition went viral and ultimately reached Paul Walker who immediately took action, \u00a0tweeting a call to stop the destruction of Mentawai Islands&#8217; Coral Reefs. Through his twitter account @RealPaulWalker, the actor shouted: \u201cHelp! The beautiful Mentawais Reefs of Indonesia are being DESTROYED in a brutal practice. Please sign to help stop it!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world was shaken on Saturday, 30th\u00a0November 2013 when 40 years old actor\u00a0Paul Walker\u00a0\u00a0passed away in an unfortunate car crash in Santa Clarita, California. Best known for his recurring role as Brian O\u2019Conner in the \u201cFast and Furious\u201d action movie series, it turned out that Paul\u00a0 had also played a significant role in saving one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}