{"id":900455,"date":"2026-04-20T17:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/how-a-community-defended-its-ancestral-forest-from-logging\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:12:37","slug":"how-a-community-defended-its-ancestral-forest-from-logging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/how-a-community-defended-its-ancestral-forest-from-logging\/","title":{"rendered":"How a community defended its ancestral forest from logging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the cartographers of the modern conservation world, the forests of northeastern Gabon can appear almost empty. Satellite images show a deep green canopy stretching across the Congo Basin. Global datasets classify large tracts as \u201cintact forest landscapes\u201d, areas supposedly free of industrial disturbance and largely untouched by people&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2026\/03\/how-a-community-defended-its-ancestral-forest-from-logging\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Becki Block<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the cartographers of the modern conservation world, the forests of northeastern Gabon can appear almost empty. Satellite images show a deep green canopy stretching across the Congo Basin. Global datasets classify large tracts as \u201cintact forest landscapes\u201d, areas supposedly free of industrial disturbance and largely untouched by people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3393,22440,192],"tags":[5331,8535],"class_list":{"0":"post-900455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-defended","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-community","11":"tag-defended"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}