{"id":5632,"date":"2015-03-22T22:48:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5632"},"modified":"2015-03-22T22:48:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T15:48:13","slug":"mozambique-will-be-stripped-of-its-forests-in-just-a-few-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-will-be-stripped-of-its-forests-in-just-a-few-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique will be stripped of its forests &#8216;in just a few years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silva used to be a farmer growing cassava, corn and beans. Eight years ago, Chinese businesspeople visited the area and offered him a high salary for cutting down trees. They lent him a chainsaw and now come by weekly to pick up the trunks by truck, taking a bumpy 60km dirt road.<\/p>\n<p>He knows what he\u2019s doing is illegal. \u201cBut what else can I do? When I was a farmer I earned almost nothing and I have to feed seven children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; He and his two helpers earn between 160 and 300 Mozambican meticais (between R60 and R100) a tree, depending on the type of wood. The Chinese sell the rare exotic hardwood trees such as chanate, ebony, monzo (leadwood), panga panga, pau preto and wenge for a hundred times as much back in their home country. Still, Silva\u2019s income isn\u2019t bad in a country like Mozambique, where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line and monthly salaries rarely exceed 3 000 meticais (just over R1,000)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mozambique News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/environmentalinvestigationagency\/photos\/a.204552795647.271619.21019330647\/10155278286015648\/?type=1&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about illegal logging in Mozambique in the <a title=\"Mozambique News\" href=\"http:\/\/eia-international.org\/reports\/first-class-crisis-chinas-criminal-and-unsustainable-intervention-in-mozambiques-miombo-forests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EIA report First Class Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silva used to be a farmer growing cassava, corn and beans. Eight years ago, Chinese businesspeople visited the area and offered him a high salary for cutting down trees. They lent him a chainsaw and now come by weekly to pick up the trunks by truck, taking a bumpy 60km dirt road. He knows what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,4493,435,4491,4494,4492,4499,4495,4704,682,257,4496,4497,254,4693,4498],"class_list":["post-5632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chanate","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-businesspeople","tag-ebony","tag-exotic-hardwood-trees","tag-leadwood","tag-monzo","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-panga-panga","tag-pau-preto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-wenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}