{"id":223004,"date":"2026-02-06T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-forestry-development-institute-defends-technological-solutions-for-environmental-surveillance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:12:06","slug":"angola-forestry-development-institute-defends-technological-solutions-for-environmental-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-forestry-development-institute-defends-technological-solutions-for-environmental-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Forestry Development Institute Defends Technological Solutions for Environmental Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Dundo \u2014 The director of the Forestry Development Institute (IDF) in Lunda-Norte, Teodoro Capingana, stated on Monday that the province&#8217;s forest density requires technological solutions, such as the use of drones to be able to monitor areas in real time, identify illegal logging, poaching, burning, among other illicit activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking to ANGOP, the official said that the implementation of technological solutions, a proposal already presented to the Ministry of the Environment, would be an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030670.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>Dundo \u2014 The director of the Forestry Development Institute (IDF) in Lunda-Norte, Teodoro Capingana, stated on Monday that the province&#8217;s forest density requires technological solutions, such as the use of drones to be able to monitor areas in real time, identify illegal logging, poaching, burning, among other illicit activities. Speaking to ANGOP, the official said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223005,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,7820,5989,14654,14611,13642,257,16100,254,9151,16954],"class_list":["post-223004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-defends","tag-development","tag-environmental","tag-forestry","tag-institute","tag-news","tag-solutions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surveillance","tag-technological"],"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\/223004","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=223004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}