{"id":3281,"date":"2019-06-24T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T11:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","slug":"why-rwanda-was-chosen-to-champion-global-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/24\/why-rwanda-was-chosen-to-champion-global-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rwanda Was Chosen To Champion Global Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Collins Mwai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rwanda<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the few countries in the world that have been approached by\u00a0<strong>Campaign for Nature<\/strong>, a global initiative working to raise awareness of threats facing natural resources, to serve as a champion or model nation on biodiversity protection<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign, which was launched in 2018, among other goals, seeks to call on countries to adopt best practices in the protection of natural resources with a target of protecting 30 per cent of global natural resources by 2030. The campaign hopes Rwanda could inspire other nations through sharing its experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New Times\u2019\u00a0<strong>Collins Mwai<\/strong>, spoke to the brains behind the initiative, former\u00a0<strong>American Senator Russ Feingold<\/strong>, who was also\u00a0<strong>President Barack Obama\u2019s Special Envoy to the Great Lakes<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/why-rwanda-was-chosen-champion-global-biodiversity\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Collins Mwai Rwanda\u00a0is one of the few countries in the world that have been approached by\u00a0Campaign for Nature, a global initiative working to raise awareness of threats facing natural&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3282,"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-3281","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\/3281","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=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}