{"id":50628,"date":"2022-11-28T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T00:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/nov\/28\/the-fijian-island-being-strangled-by-vines"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T00:52:04","slug":"the-fijian-island-being-strangled-by-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50628","title":{"rendered":"The Fijian island being strangled by vines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanua Levu is being overrun by invasive vines \u2013 and the increasing number of natural disasters, brought on by climate change, is only making things worse<\/p>\n<p>In Vanua Levu, the second largest island of Fiji, every contour drips with green. The landscape is impossibly lush and verdant. But upon closer inspection, it\u2019s evident that nearly everything is shrouded in vines.<\/p>\n<p>There are several vine species in Fiji, one of which is the invasive <em>kudzu<\/em>, introduced by US troops in the second world war as living camouflage for Allied equipment. But, as botanist Judith Sumner, writes: \u201cunder tropical Pacific conditions kudzu quickly became an invasive species with a growth rate that aggressively outpaced native Fijian flora.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/nov\/28\/the-fijian-island-being-strangled-by-vines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanua Levu is being overrun by invasive vines \u2013 and the increasing number of natural disasters, brought on by climate change, is only making things worseIn Vanua Levu, the second largest island of Fiji, every contour drips with green. The landscape is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3459,"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":[91,41,436,874,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628","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\/3459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions\/50629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}