{"id":642,"date":"2015-03-30T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2015-03-30T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:48:10","slug":"elephants-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Elephants in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-643\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=642\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-643 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elephants.jpg\" alt=\"Brent Lewin\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elephants.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elephants-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/elephants-199x129.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brent Lewin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/>\nThe elephant is not only of great cultural and historical significance in Myanmar, but is also of major economic importance in the country&#8217;s nationalized timber industry. With teak export as the second most important source of foreign exchange, captive elephants working in Myanmar\u2019s logging industry are also bringing about the destruction of their natural habitat at an alarming rate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">With the second highest population of wild elephants in Asia and the largest continuous area of natural habitat, Myanmar is a crucial battleground in the survival of the species. Myanmar is home to the largest number of captive elephants in the world and is the only country that continues to use elephants on a large scale in industry. The capture of elephants for use in the timber trade is acknowledged as the biggest threat to the survival of wild elephants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentlewin.com\/#\/elephants\/forests---myanmar\/MyLog01\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.brentlewin.com\/#\/elephants\/forests&#8212;myanmar\/MyLog01<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elephant is not only of great cultural and historical significance in Myanmar, but is also of major economic importance in the country&#8217;s nationalized timber industry. With teak export as the second most important source of foreign exchange, captive elephants working in Myanmar\u2019s logging industry are also bringing about the destruction of their natural habitat &#8230; <a title=\"Elephants in Myanmar\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=642\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Elephants in Myanmar\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}