{"id":5717,"date":"2020-05-18T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T02:14:43","slug":"south-africa-traffics-thousands-of-endangered-wild-animals-to-china-in-corrupt-and-growing-trade-investigation-finds-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/18\/south-africa-traffics-thousands-of-endangered-wild-animals-to-china-in-corrupt-and-growing-trade-investigation-finds-the-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa traffics thousands of endangered wild animals to China in \u2018corrupt and growing\u2019 trade, investigation finds | The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>South African traders with <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/China\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-9513226-\/topic\/China\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">China<\/a> are illegally selling thousands of wild animals threatened with extinction and endangered, under the guise of legal exports, according to an investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Monkeys\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-9513226-\/topic\/Monkeys\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">Monkeys<\/a> have been stolen from the wild, and together with cheetahs, tigers, rhinos, lions and meerkats, they have been trafficked to circuses, theme parks, laboratories, <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Zoos\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-9513226-\/topic\/Zoos\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">zoos<\/a> and \u201csafari parks\u201d, researchers found.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Their report says at least 5,035 live wild animals were exported to China from 2016 to last year \u2013 \u201can extremely conservative\u201d estimate \u2013 including <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/chimpanzees\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-9513226-\/topic\/chimpanzees\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">chimpanzees<\/a> and \u201ca bewildering number\u201d of giraffe, which \u201care also eaten in China\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\/china-wildlife-trade-coronavirus-south-africa-illegal-rhino-lion-bat-ems-a9513226.html\">South Africa traffics thousands of endangered wild animals to China in \u2018corrupt and growing\u2019 trade, investigation finds | The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African traders with China are illegally selling thousands of wild animals threatened with extinction and endangered, under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441,439],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5718,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions\/5718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}