{"id":627,"date":"2025-02-07T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2025-02-07T21:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:44:59","slug":"real-betis-don-new-shirt-to-raise-environmental-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/real-betis-don-new-shirt-to-raise-environmental-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Betis don new shirt to raise environmental concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish La Liga club Real Betis launched a new kit made out of an invasive algae on Thursday to raise awareness of an ecological crisis on the Andalucian coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shirt is made with recycled plastic from the ocean as well as a textile fabric created from the brown algae. Named Rugulopteryx okamurae, the algae has spread rapidly in the Mediterranean impacting biodiversity, fishing and tourism, as well as proving expensive to remove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betis, who presented the shirt in Tarifa, a town particularly affected by the issue, will wear it on February 16 against Real Sociedad in La Liga. &#8220;The presence of invasive algae on our coasts is destroying our ecosystem,&#8221; wrote Betis in a post on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To confront them, the first kit made with fibres created from these algae was born.&#8221; Marine biologist Candela Sanchez Atienzar told AFP the algae, native to the North Pacific, most likely arrived in Spanish waters in 2015 &#8220;through the ballast waters of merchant ships&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When it arrived it started to spread out of control, there&#8217;s no invasion in the history of science described on this scale,&#8221; she said. Rafael Muela Pastor, the director of Betis&#8217; social foundation, said it was a good opportunity to raise awareness of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;News was reaching us that the invasive Asian algae was causing many problems in all sectors in the area,&#8221; he told AFP. &#8220;We wanted to take advantage of this situation in some way to draw attention to the importance of caring for our oceans and seas.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/match\/betis\/real-sociedad\/20256553\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish La Liga club Real Betis launched a new kit made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}