{"id":1228,"date":"2012-12-20T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:03:36","slug":"the-forest-and-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/2012\/the-forest-and-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"The forest and the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The forest and the trees\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Life after the B.PAPM: Over the next 15 months, Kroeger College graduate Rene Toupin-Piper (2010)&nbsp;will be working in Cameroon for the African Model Forest Network (AMFN). Based on an idea born here in Canada, the AMFN is an initiative in participatory sustainable forest management, working with the affected communities, government and industry to think long-term about and reach consensus on how the forest&nbsp;should be&nbsp;managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, Rene will be working with the Baka and Bagyeli people \u2013 severely marginalized indigenous hunting and gathering peoples whose livelihoods depend on the forest &#8212; to ensure they have a stronger say over this process, and to help them develop alternative economic opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about the African Model Forest Network, go to:<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imfn.net\/african-model-forest-network\">http:\/\/www.imfn.net\/african-model-forest-network<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rene also holds an M.A. from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life after the B.PAPM: Over the next 15 months, Kroeger College graduate Rene Toupin-Piper (2010)&nbsp;will be working in Cameroon for the African Model Forest Network (AMFN). Based on an idea born here in Canada, the AMFN is an initiative in participatory sustainable forest management, working with the affected communities, government and industry to think long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}