{"id":1210,"date":"2021-10-15T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2021-10-24T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T15:49:36","slug":"protecting-sacred-forests-in-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Sacred Forests in Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210417_171344_DSCF5788-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210417_171344_DSCF5788-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210417_171344_DSCF5788-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210417_171344_DSCF5788-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20210417_171344_DSCF5788.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Living Planet\/Deutsche Welle (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/415mf \" target=\"_blank\">Living Planet\/Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some in Benin, the forests are sacred and they provide a special connection with colobus monkeys, a connection that stretches back centuries to the slave trade. Research for this story was funded by the European Journalism Centre through a European Development Journalism Grant awarded to Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and FAZ.net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/415mf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Listen to the full report here! (opens in a new tab)\">Listen to the full report here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living Planet\/Deutsche Welle For some in Benin, the forests are sacred and they provide a special connection with colobus monkeys, a connection that stretches back centuries to the slave trade. Research for this story was funded by the European Journalism Centre through a European Development Journalism Grant awarded to Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and FAZ.net. Listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,171],"tags":[11,91,325],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aktuelles","category-radio","tag-benin","tag-deutsche-welle","tag-sacred-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}