{"id":4751,"date":"2022-09-05T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2022-09-05T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T07:37:43","slug":"indigenous-communities-bodyguards-of-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/indigenous-communities-bodyguards-of-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Communities \u2013 Bodyguards of the Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous forests in Vietnam where local communities are the most active protector, thanks to their belief that the ones their ancestors had left are God&#8217;s residences. By worshiping the holiness of the Gods, communities have closely protected these forests for thousands of years, using their traditional regulations and customs. However, there is a long and challenging way to go before people can really play their role.<\/p>\n<p>With legal frameworks adequately empowering and supporting the communities, they will be fully capable of sustainable natural resources management and biodiversity conservation. This also helps Vietnam get closer to achieving the biodiversity conservation goals that it has internationally committed to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYFXTJNOg44\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Vietnam, many forests are being effectively managed by the most active guardians &#8211; the local communities &#8211; thanks to their cultural norms: the forest left by their ancestors is also the place where the forest god resides. It\u2019s the traditional regulations and laws imprinted through the traditional practice of worshiping the sacredness of the gods that guide the community to manage and protect these forests for hundreds and thousands of years. However, there are challenges ahead that hinder them from playing their role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,30],"tags":[49,57,71,48,65,85],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia","category-videos","tag-biodiversity","tag-communities","tag-forest-governance","tag-conservation","tag-sustainable-development","tag-sustainable-livelihoods","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nature.org.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}