Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

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The Osun-Osogbo Grove is among the remainder of the sacrosanct backwoods which ordinarily abutted the edges of most Yoruba urban communities before broad urbanization. In acknowledgment of its worldwide importance and its social worth, the Sacred Grove was recorded as an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.

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The 1950s saw the contamination of the Osun-Osogbo Grove: hallowed places were dismissed, ministers deserted the forest as standard duties and approvals debilitated. Precluded activities like fishing, chasing and felling of trees in the forest occurred until an Austrian, Susanne Wenger, came and halted the maltreatment going on in the forest.

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With the consolation of the Ataoja and the help of the neighborhood individuals, "Wenger shaped the New Sacred Art development to challenge land theorists, repulse poachers, ensure sanctums and start the long interaction of resurrecting the holy spot by building up it, once more, as the holy heart of Osogbo".

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