{"id":707271,"date":"2021-11-04T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707271"},"modified":"2021-11-04T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:14:51","slug":"pangolin-trafficking-nigerias-illegal-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707271","title":{"rendered":"Pangolin trafficking: Nigeria\u2019s illegal trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Asian species dangerously depleted, global black markets have turned to Africa, and Nigeria has become the continent&#8217;s pangolin trafficking &#8216;hub&#8217;. Just Nigeria-linked pangolin seizures in the last decade alone amount to at least 800,000 &#8212; but possibly close to a million &#8212; animals, according to a new study. The findings suggest that current global estimates for pangolin trafficking are far too small, say researchers.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/11\/211104081451.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Pangolin trafficking: Nigeria\u2019s illegal trade<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Asian species dangerously depleted, global black markets have turned to Africa, and Nigeria has become the continent&#8217;s pangolin trafficking &#8216;hub&#8217;. Just Nigeria-linked pangolin seizures in the last decade alone&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}