{"id":13553,"date":"2018-09-02T03:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T03:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13553"},"modified":"2018-09-02T03:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T03:23:30","slug":"beetle-infestation-threatens-johannesburgs-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13553","title":{"rendered":"Beetle infestation threatens Johannesburg&#8217;s forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"68\">\n<p>Johannesburg is home to one of the world\u2019s largest urban forests, but it&#8217;s come under threat from a tiny beetle.<\/p>\n<p>About 200 species of trees &#8211; many of them indigenous to South Africa &#8211; are afflicted with the pest and the fungus it carries.<\/p>\n<p>As scientists desperately look for a solution, many of the city\u2019s trees are dying and experts are concerned the infestation could move from the forest to croplands next.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Fahmida Miller reports from Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg is home to one of the world\u2019s largest urban forests, but it&#8217;s come under threat from a tiny beetle. About 200 species of trees &#8211; many of them indigenous to South Africa &#8211; are afflicted with the pest and the fungus it carries. As scientists desperately look for a solution, many of the city\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}