{"id":32625,"date":"2021-05-31T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/they-failed-us-how-mining-and-logging-devastated-a-pacific-island-in-a-decade"},"modified":"2021-05-31T05:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:00:03","slug":"they-failed-us-how-mining-and-logging-devastated-a-pacific-island-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32625","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They failed us\u2019: how mining and logging devastated a Pacific island in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rennell Island, in Solomon Islands, has suffered the triple assault of extensive logging, bauxite mining, and a devastating oil spill from a carrier hired by a mining company<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more of our Pacific Plunder series here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is perhaps nowhere in the Pacific where the costs of extractive industries are as heartbreakingly clear as Rennell Island.<\/p>\n<p>The island, a tiny dot in the vast South Pacific that lies at the southern tip of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/solomonislands\">Solomon Islands<\/a>, is home to a few thousand people. And it\u2019s starkly divided.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/they-failed-us-how-mining-and-logging-devastated-a-pacific-island-in-a-decade\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rennell Island, in Solomon Islands, has suffered the triple assault of extensive logging, bauxite mining, and a devastating oil spill from a carrier hired by a mining companyRead more of our Pacific Plunder series hereThere is perhaps nowhere in the Pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2219,"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":[41,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","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\/32625","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\/2219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32638,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32625\/revisions\/32638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}