{"id":24411,"date":"2018-12-05T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24411"},"modified":"2018-12-05T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:23:44","slug":"brazils-president-elect-threatens-amazon-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24411","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s president-elect threatens Amazon rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"68.4506283662\">\n<p>Next year&#8217;s climate talks were due to take place in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/brazil.html\">Brazil<\/a>, but that has now been reversed by the President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-presidential-candidate-181007020716337.html\">Jair Bolsonaro<\/a>, who has also made no secret of his desire to open the Amazon to mining, farming and dam building.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s biggest rainforest is already threatened after a year in which Brazil broke its own deforestation record. Latest satellite images show that in a 12-month period, almost 8,000 square kilometres of forest were cut. That amounts to five times the size of Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Lucia Newman reports from Para, Brazil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next year&#8217;s climate talks were due to take place in Brazil, but that has now been reversed by the President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has also made no secret of his desire to open the Amazon to mining, farming and dam building. The world&#8217;s biggest rainforest is already threatened after a year in which Brazil broke&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24411","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\/24411","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=24411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}