{"id":5027,"date":"2019-09-02T09:47:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"the-churches-trying-to-save-ethiopias-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/02\/the-churches-trying-to-save-ethiopias-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Churches Trying To Save Ethiopia&#8217;s Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In northern Ethiopia, churches are fighting to protect their\nsacred forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\nthe Ethiopian Orthodox Church, it&#8217;s believed that these forests provide\nprotective &#8216;clothing&#8217; for their sacred spaces. They can also offer the only\nshade for miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But\nencroaching farmland is putting these ancient trees at risk &#8211; and livestock is\nthwarting attempts to rejuvenate the forests with new saplings\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-africa-49528694\/the-churches-trying-to-save-ethiopia-s-trees\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Africa In northern Ethiopia, churches are fighting to protect their sacred forests. In the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, it&#8217;s believed that these forests provide protective &#8216;clothing&#8217; for their sacred&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5028,"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-5027","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\/5027","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=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}