{"id":23631,"date":"2011-05-10T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=23631"},"modified":"2011-05-10T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:51:09","slug":"forest-destruction-is-illegitimate-slbc-harold-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=23631","title":{"rendered":"\u201cForest Destruction is illegitimate\u201d SLBC Harold Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Environmental Journalist and representative of the Western Area Peninsula Forest Reserve (WAPFOR) and its Watershed, SLBC Harold Williams said obliterating forest reserves for \u2018self gain\u2019 is harmful to society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is harmful to destroy the forest, but good to nurture it as people can live and make their livelihood near and around the forest,\u201d Harold emphatically said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made this disclosure at a meeting to sign a memorandum of understanding between the Environmental Forum for Action and section of Environmental journalists in the enhancement and easy dissemination of environmental information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harold revealed to journalists that approximately 1.4 million people live directly in the forest and are mostly engaged in woodcutting for fuel and charcoal production; which according to him has resulted to the wasteful exploitation and reduction of the economic value of the forests generally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Giving an overview of the project, he stated however that the Welf Hunger Hilfe and Environment Partners are implementing a five year project called: \u201cconservation of the Sierra Leone Western Area Peninsular Forest Reserve and its watershed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the project will help to reduce man\u2019s bad activities towards the forest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main objective of the project, he said, is to conserve and manage the Western Area Peninsular Forest Reserve and its watershed in a sustainable manner for the benefit of adjacent population in and around the capital of Freetown, including inhabitants of villages scattered around the peninsular forests.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Ibrahim Sahid Kamara<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Journalist and representative of the Western Area Peninsula Forest Reserve (WAPFOR) and its Watershed, SLBC Harold Williams said obliterating forest reserves for \u2018self gain\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,673,1],"tags":[2261,2179,8259],"class_list":["post-23631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-deforestation","tag-environmental-issues","tag-western-area-peninsular-forest-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}