{"id":12998,"date":"2020-01-17T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/17\/walking-death-entitled-locals-hiking-new-zealands-kauri-trees-into-extinction"},"modified":"2020-01-17T14:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:16:23","slug":"walking-death-entitled-locals-hiking-new-zealands-kauri-trees-into-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12998","title":{"rendered":"Walking death: &#8216;entitled locals&#8217; hiking New Zealand&#8217;s kauri trees into extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rangers say refusal to obey trail closures are foiling their efforts to save the county\u2019s oldest and most sacred trees from deadly fungus<\/p>\n<p>A deadly fungal disease putting a treasured species of New Zealand native trees at risk of extinction has generated desperate attempts by Auckland park rangers to prevent the spread in what they believe is an \u201cunprecedented\u201d conservation effort globally.<\/p>\n<p>But their efforts to bar hikers in areas most at risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/26\/new-zealand-charges-hiker-who-entered-quarantined-kauri-forest\">kauri <\/a>dieback are foiled, they say, not by clueless tourists but by \u201centitled\u201d locals who will not accept their favourite walking routes being disrupted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/17\/walking-death-entitled-locals-hiking-new-zealands-kauri-trees-into-extinction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rangers say refusal to obey trail closures are foiling their efforts to save the county\u2019s oldest and most sacred trees from deadly fungusA deadly fungal disease putting a treasured species of New Zealand native trees at risk of extinction has generated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12999,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions\/12999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}