{"id":5794,"date":"2019-10-08T08:33:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"how-an-underwater-forest-in-ghana-could-help-rebuild-a-paris-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/08\/how-an-underwater-forest-in-ghana-could-help-rebuild-a-paris-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"How An Underwater Forest In Ghana Could Help Rebuild A Paris Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Aaron Akinyemi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wood from a vast\nunderwater forest in Ghana could be used to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral after\nits spire and roof were consumed by a blaze in April.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Massive tropical trees have been submerged beneath Lake Volta\nsince 1965, when the construction of Ghana&#8217;s Akosombo Dam flooded part of the\nVolta River Basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Ghanaian company, which has government concessions to harvest\nthis wood, believes that using it to rebuild Notre-Dame is more environmentally\nfriendly than cutting down new trees\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-48964785\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aaron Akinyemi Wood from a vast underwater forest in Ghana could be used to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral after its spire and roof were consumed by a blaze in April.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5795,"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-5794","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\/5794","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=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}