{"id":27327,"date":"2008-08-22T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:37:29","slug":"2327-local-corruption-threatens-chinese-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/2327-local-corruption-threatens-chinese-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Local corruption &#8220;threatens Chinese rainforest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The farmers, several of whom were arrested, alleged that some local officials had helped rubber companies flout the rules and cut down the forest to plant rubber trees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists who have studied the rainforest in the tropical region, which is in Yunnan province, say it has declined dramatically. Several decades ago it covered about 70% of Xishuangbanna, the report said, but that has fallen to about 43% today.<\/p>\n<p>But local government officials denied the rainforest was still being cleared. One official told the BBC that most of those responsible for cutting down the forest were foreigners. &quot;Some people from Vietnam and Laos have been coming over the border and chopping the forest down for valuable natural oil,&quot; he was quoted as saying. &quot;It&#8217;s maybe 90% foreigners who are responsible. But we&#8217;ve already arrested five or six of them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7570501.stm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in Xishuangbanna, southwest China, recently staged a protest that accused local officials of colluding with the rubber industry to destroy the local rainforest, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-27327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - 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