{"id":28150,"date":"2023-07-18T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/07\/18\/kenyas-president-lifts-logging-ban-environmentalists-concerned-over-william-rutos-announcement\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:02:05","slug":"kenyas-president-lifts-logging-ban-environmentalists-concerned-over-william-rutos-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/07\/18\/kenyas-president-lifts-logging-ban-environmentalists-concerned-over-william-rutos-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&rsquo;s president lifts logging ban: Environmentalists concerned over William Ruto&rsquo;s announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After years of prohibition, logging in Kenya&rsquo;s forests is once again legal. President William Ruto&rsquo;s announcement at the beginning of July came as a surprise to environmentalists. The country needs to replant billions of trees to cover 30% of its territory, compared with the current 8%. But the Ruto justified his decision by saying it would help regional development and reduce the need for importing timber. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Bastien Renouil and Th\u00e9o Prouvost report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of prohibition, logging in Kenya&rsquo;s forests is once again legal. President William Ruto&rsquo;s announcement at the beginning of July came as a surprise to environmentalists. The country needs to replant billions of trees to cover 30% of its territory, compared with the current 8%. But the Ruto justified his decision by saying it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-28150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}