{"id":1249262,"date":"2023-10-06T05:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T05:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/?p=373298"},"modified":"2023-10-06T05:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T05:26:15","slug":"secret-forest-australia-rivals-the-congo-on-deforestation-blocks-media-access-to-world-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/06\/secret-forest-australia-rivals-the-congo-on-deforestation-blocks-media-access-to-world-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Forest: Australia rivals The Congo on deforestation, blocks media access to world scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hyatt-Regency-Sydney-P047-Zephyr.16x9-copy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Montreal Working Group, forestry\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hyatt-Regency-Sydney-P047-Zephyr.16x9-copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Hyatt-Regency-Sydney-P047-Zephyr.16x9-copy-480x342.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Forestry officials have blocked journalist access to scientists at a global forum this week to monitor the destruction of native forests.\u00a0Callum Foote reports on the secrecy of Department of Agriculture officials - following the destruction of 1.5m hectares of forest in three years.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/secret-forest-australia-rivals-the-congo-on-deforestation-blocks-media-access-to-world-scientists\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forestry officials have blocked journalist access to scientists at a global forum this week to monitor the destruction of native forests.\u00a0Callum Foote reports on the secrecy of Department of Agriculture officials &#8211; following the destruction of 1.5m hec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1875,45736],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251506,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249262\/revisions\/1251506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}