{"id":208515,"date":"2025-09-29T19:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-officially-joins-unescos-world-network-of-biosphere-reserves\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:06:50","slug":"angola-officially-joins-unescos-world-network-of-biosphere-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-officially-joins-unescos-world-network-of-biosphere-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Officially Joins Unesco&#8217;s World Network of Biosphere Reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Luanda \u2014 Angola reached a historic milestone today in conservation and sustainable development, officially joining UNESCO&#8217;s World Map of Biosphere Reserves with the designation of the &#8220;Qui\u00e7ama Biosphere Reserve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">According to a press release seen by ANGOP this Saturday, this integration represents international recognition of the country&#8217;s commitment to protecting biodiversity, promoting scientific knowledge, and strengthening local communities, in line with the objectives of UNESCO&#8217;s &#8220;Man and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509290013.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Angola reached a historic milestone today in conservation and sustainable development, officially joining UNESCO&#8217;s World Map of Biosphere Reserves with the designation of the &#8220;Qui\u00e7ama Biosphere Reserve.&#8221; According to a press release seen by ANGOP this Saturday, this integration represents international recognition of the country&#8217;s commitment to protecting biodiversity, promoting scientific knowledge, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208516,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,41039,5046,8265,257,5982,11008,254,15124,5093],"class_list":["post-208515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-biosphere","tag-joins","tag-network","tag-news","tag-officially","tag-reserves","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unescos","tag-world"],"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\/208515","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=208515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}