{"id":1046,"date":"2022-06-19T06:13:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T06:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/06\/19\/how-gabon-saved-its-forest-elephants\/"},"modified":"2022-06-19T06:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T06:13:26","slug":"how-gabon-saved-its-forest-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"How Gabon saved its forest elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In 2002, Omar Bongo, the president of Gabon, set up a network of national parks to protect the country&#8217;s rainforest from logging and help save its population of forest elephants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He was responding to pressure from campaigners worried by a surge in logging over the previous decade. Among them was a British biologist called Lee White, who went on to become Gabon&#8217;s Minister of Forests and the Environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3ct3c5k\" class=\"ssrcss-moz6zf-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History<\/a>: <i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">The stories of our times told by the people who were there. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-61832589?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In 2002, Omar Bongo, the president of Gabon, set up a network of national parks to protect the country&#8217;s rainforest from logging and help save its population of forest &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}