{"id":22714,"date":"2020-09-14T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/coronavirus-pandemic-fuelling-plant-poaching-philippines"},"modified":"2020-09-14T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T07:42:09","slug":"coronavirus-pandemic-fuelling-plant-poaching-in-philippines-say-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22714","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus pandemic fuelling plant poaching in Philippines, say officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gardening craze has reportedly led to endangered species being dug up from mountains and forests <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Officials in the Philippines say the coronavirus pandemic is fuelling a new problem in the country: a surge in plant poaching.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s lockdown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/coronavirus-wreaking-havoc-in-uk-filipino-community-nhs\">earlier this year<\/a>, one of the strictest in the world, helped drive demand for greenery among Filipinos who were longing for nature. Though restrictions have since been eased, the craze for gardening has continued, and officials say sellers are digging up endangered species from the country\u2019s mountains and forests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/coronavirus-pandemic-fuelling-plant-poaching-philippines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardening craze has reportedly led to endangered species being dug up from mountains and forests Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficials in the Philippines say the coronavirus pandemic is fuelling a new problem in the coun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"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":[41,1069,65,55,1674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-environment","category-philippines","category-plants","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22715,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714\/revisions\/22715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}