{"id":5198,"date":"2019-09-10T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T07:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"forests-and-passion-a-heros-guide-to-resisting-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/10\/forests-and-passion-a-heros-guide-to-resisting-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Forests And Passion: A Hero\u2019s Guide to Resisting Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\nUN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the launch of a major report by the Global Commission on Adaptation on 10 September 2019, we follow the story of an environmental hero from Seychelles and their quest to adapt by harnessing the power of trees. #AdaptOurWorld<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For\nmany people, retirement is a chance to take a break. Not so for Victorin\nLaboudallon, a grandfather from the Seychelles who spends his days planting\nforests to fight climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wherever there\u2019s a forest fire in Seychelles, you can be sure you\u2019ll find Laboudallon ready to fight back, armed with seeds and shovels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProtecting\nnature makes me very happy in life,\u201d says Laboudallon. \u201cWe need to protect it\nas much as we can, so other generations can enjoy it like I did when I was a\nkid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laboudallon,\n65, has built a network of volunteers, from children to retirees, whom he calls\nupon to help him with replanting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf\ntomorrow we have another fire, we are ready to go back and plant.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/forests-and-passion-heros-guide-resisting-climate-change\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment With the launch of a major report by the Global Commission on Adaptation on 10 September 2019, we follow the story of an environmental hero from Seychelles&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5199,"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-5198","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\/5198","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=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}