The COVID-19 pandemic might have scotched your vacation plans this year. But you can still bound through some of the world\u2019s most iconic landscapes in a new online journey launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A new interactive webpage<\/a> allows netizens to explore three wildlife-rich forests: the Leuser in Indonesia, the Kayah-Karen in Thailand and Myanmar, and the Gran Chaco, which courses through Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through videos, photo essays and quizzes, the website offers an intimate look at the plants and animals that call these forests home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe site is designed to raise awareness about the myriad of threats facing forests, from logging to farming,\u201d says Susan Gardner, Director of UNEP\u2019s Ecosystems Division. \u201cAs our thirst for natural resources grows,\u00a0we put\u00a0increased pressure on the world\u2019s forests, which are actually very delicate ecosystems. By highlighting \u00a0how forests benefit both animals and humans, we hope\u00a0to help preserve them for generations to come.\u201d Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The COVID-19 pandemic might have scotched your vacation plans this year. But you can still bound through some of the world\u2019s most iconic landscapes in a new online journey launched…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}