{"id":913,"date":"2021-04-24T01:48:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T01:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildleopard.net\/?p=913"},"modified":"2021-04-24T01:48:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T01:48:15","slug":"wildlife-crime-is-a-societal-problem-it-needs-to-be-treated-as-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/24\/wildlife-crime-is-a-societal-problem-it-needs-to-be-treated-as-such\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife crime is a societal problem, it needs to be treated as such&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/B-46-1024x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/B-46-1024x491.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/B-46-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/B-46-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/B-46-1200x576.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/B-46.jpg 1976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> A recent seizure, leopard skin, bones and claws.  On another platform yesterday a  post re leopard poaching resulted in an &#8216;off air&#8217; discussion, the agreement being that wildlife crime is a societal problem but the conservation sector is constantly in the firing line from the public who take little responsibility beyond armchair activism.  It&#8217;s all very well firing shots, anyone can do that, one day in a larger body of work I&#8217;ll explain what it has been like constantly listening to those shots, sometimes even being aimed at.  In the meantime western Nepal is a hotspot for leopard poaching\/trafficking and covid is making it harder to combat due to resources.  My own focus is very much on this issue, there are people trying, albeit not enough, maybe a few of those firing shots could actually give real support instead of criticism.  Wildlife crime definitely is a societal problem, a serious one.  It needs to be treated as such.  We&#8217;re all in this.  The pandemic is one of many problems exposing our poor treatment of nature.  Wildlife crime is a big part of that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent seizure, leopard skin, bones and claws. On another platform yesterday a post re leopard poaching resulted in an &#8216;off air&#8217; discussion, the agreement being that wildlife crime is a societal problem but the conservation sector is constantly in the firing line from the public who take little responsibility beyond armchair activism. It&#8217;s all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildleopard.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}