{"id":6339,"date":"2017-07-28T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T09:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2017-07-28T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T09:16:01","slug":"ivory-coast-arrests-eight-for-pangolin-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/ivory-coast-arrests-eight-for-pangolin-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory coast arrests eight for pangolin smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The authorities in Ivory Coast say they&#8217;ve seized a record haul of three tonnes of pangolin scales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They say the haul represents about 4,000 of the endangered nocturnal mammals, captured in several West African countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior police officer with Ivory Coast&#8217;s organized crime unit, Thimotee Gnahore, said the scales were worth an estimated $82,000 (\u00a363,000) on the local market but could fetch 100 times that amount in Asia, where they are used in traditional medicine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight men of different nationalities have been arrested.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"lx-stream-post-body__media-asset lx-media-asset lx-media-asset--image lx-media-asset--landscape\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"lx-media-asset__body\">\u00a0Some believe pangolin scales have medicinal properties<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post__body gel-body-copy\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-reactid=\".1xuq8m5ys5c.2.0.0.1.0.0.0.2.0.0.$k597ae78be4b0b165a9f7e0ad.3\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6341\" src=\"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/some.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/some.png 500w, https:\/\/egretnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/some-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities in Ivory Coast say they&#8217;ve seized a record haul of three tonnes of pangolin scales. They say the haul represents about 4,000 of the endangered nocturnal mammals, captured in several West African countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6342,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions\/6342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}