{"id":1599420,"date":"2017-10-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p05hll9v"},"modified":"2017-10-01T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T04:00:00","slug":"the-silent-forest-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2017\/10\/01\/the-silent-forest-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Forest &#8211; Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Siamese Rosewood tree is now so valuable that two small pieces carried in a rucksack are worth $500. This kind of money means that armed criminal gangs up to a hundred strong have stripped the forests of Thailand bare of the Rosewood. Nearly all of it is destined for the Chinese rosewood \u2018hongmu\u2019 furniture market. And, in the north-west of Thailand, the Karen people are trying to create a 'peace park' to preserve their natural habitat. Can they stem the storm of exploitation and destruction and keep their forests alive and vibrant?<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p05hll9v\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Siamese Rosewood tree is now so valuable that two small pieces carried in a rucksack are worth $500. This kind of money means that armed criminal gangs up to a hundred strong have stripped the forests of Thailand bare of the Rosewood. Nearly all of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599420"}],"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\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599421,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599420\/revisions\/1599421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}