{"id":33082,"date":"2012-12-13T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33082"},"modified":"2012-12-13T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:42:37","slug":"nbc-1500-elephant-tusks-seized-on-way-to-china-biggest-bust-a-sign-of-worse-things-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/13\/nbc-1500-elephant-tusks-seized-on-way-to-china-biggest-bust-a-sign-of-worse-things-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC: 1,500 elephant tusks seized on way to China; biggest bust a sign of worse things to come?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 1,500 African elephant tusks \u2014 the biggest seizure ever \u2014 were found this week hidden within timber planks and destined for China&#8217;s ivory market. Shocked conservationists noted 2012 will now go down as the worst year in 24 years of records \u2014 and warned that 2013 could be even worse.<br \/>\n&#8220;In 2011 we thought the threats to elephants couldn&#8217;t get any worse and 2012 draws to a close with the depressing news that the slaughter of elephants hasn&#8217;t even drawn close to their zenith,&#8221; said Jason Bell, who runs the International Fund for Animal Welfare&#8217;s elephant program. &#8220;The illegal trade is simply voracious in its appetite for ivory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/13\/15884810-1500-elephant-tusks-seized-on-way-to-china-biggest-bust-a-sign-of-worse-things-to-come?lite\" title=\"Elephant Tusks seized on their way to China\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 1,500 African elephant tusks \u2014 the biggest seizure ever \u2014 were found this week hidden within timber planks and destined for China&#8217;s ivory market. Shocked conservationists noted 2012 will now go down as the worst year in 24 years of records \u2014 and warned that 2013 could be even worse. &#8220;In 2011 we thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33083,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33082\/revisions\/33083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}