{"id":202482,"date":"2025-07-15T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-farewell-roberto-zolho-your-legacy-will-live-on-in-the-forests-parks-and-reserves-of-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:42:58","slug":"mozambique-farewell-roberto-zolho-your-legacy-will-live-on-in-the-forests-parks-and-reserves-of-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-farewell-roberto-zolho-your-legacy-will-live-on-in-the-forests-parks-and-reserves-of-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: &#8216;Farewell Roberto Zolho. Your Legacy Will Live On in the Forests, Parks and Reserves of Mozambique&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Described as a man of integrity, generous spirit, and &#8216;a tireless defender of nature&#8217;, veteran Mozambican conservationist Roberto Zolho has died in Maputo aged 65.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">South African and international conservation groups have paid tribute to Roberto Zolho, a former park warden, planner, and biodiversity consultant who played a key role in restoring the forests and wildlife refuges of Mozambique following the devastation caused by decades of civil war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Zolho, who died on 4 July, began his nature&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507140775.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Described as a man of integrity, generous spirit, and &#8216;a tireless defender of nature&#8217;, veteran Mozambican conservationist Roberto Zolho has died in Maputo aged 65. South African and international conservation groups have paid tribute to Roberto Zolho, a former park warden, planner, and biodiversity consultant who played a key role in restoring the forests and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,8633,9600,11879,9191,4704,682,257,22017,11008,40715,254,51871],"class_list":["post-202482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-farewell","tag-forests","tag-legacy","tag-live","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-parks","tag-reserves","tag-roberto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zolho"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}