{"id":7929,"date":"2020-02-05T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","slug":"trees-in-south-africa-are-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/05\/trees-in-south-africa-are-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees In South Africa Are Under Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Trudy Paap<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than two years have passed since the detection of what is arguably the most damaging tree pest ever to arrive in South Africa: the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13313-018-0545-0\">polyphagous shot hole borer<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>Euwallacea fornicatus<\/em>). The beetle kills trees and there are no proven remedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beetle is now present in nearly all parts of the country and in more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fabinet.up.ac.za\/index.php\/pshb\">100 tree species<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An invasion of this magnitude should have elicited a rapid response and the development of a strategic action plan. But that hasn\u2019t happened. South Africa has never had to deal with a tree-killing pest of this importance before. In addition, the country has limited resources and there has been confusion about which government department should take responsibility. As a result, there hasn\u2019t been a coordinated response to deal with the pest. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/trees-in-south-africa-are-under-attack-why-its-proving-hard-to-manage-130804\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Trudy Paap More than two years have passed since the detection of what is arguably the most damaging tree pest ever to arrive in South Africa: the&nbsp;polyphagous shot hole&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}