{"id":277897,"date":"2019-06-03T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=83e4fefc98317475a3dd312bc860a0dc"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:14:47","slug":"addis-ababas-gullele-botanical-garden-opened-as-a-green-refuge-for-city-dwellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277897","title":{"rendered":"Addis Ababa\u2019s Gullele Botanical Garden opened as a green refuge for city dwellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Mongabay reported that Gullele Botanical Garden, inaugurated and opened to the public in January 2019, had quickly become a rare green escape for people living in crowded Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-219692\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-forests.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Addis Ababa\u2019s Gullele Botanical Garden opened as a green refuge for city dwellers\" \/>\n<p>The garden sits on highland slopes above the capital and was designed to conserve native plants, support research, and give residents a place to walk away from traffic and dust, which made it more than a tourist stop for Horn readers who follow urban environment stories.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as environment and culture archive, the Mongabay feature dates how Addis Ababa tried to protect biodiversity while giving city dwellers a public botanical park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2019\/06\/in-ethiopias-addis-ababa-gullele-botanical-garden-captivates-city-dwellers\/\">Mongabay<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ethiopia\u2019s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers&nbsp;&nbsp;Mongabay.comGullele Botanic Garden (GBG) is the first of its kind located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Officially inaugurated and opened to the public in January 2019,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":219692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-forests.jpg?fit=707%2C392&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aid","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755027,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277897\/revisions\/755027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}