{"id":29271,"date":"2021-03-05T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/05\/spate-of-firecracker-attacks-on-taiwans-invasive-iguanas-sparks-alarm"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:16:37","slug":"spate-of-firecracker-attacks-on-taiwans-invasive-iguanas-sparks-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29271","title":{"rendered":"Spate of firecracker attacks on Taiwan&#8217;s invasive iguanas sparks alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights group calls for action after cash bounty schemes lead to reptiles being blown up and shot with a bow and arrow<\/p>\n<p>A spate of cruelty towards invasive iguanas in Taiwan including stuffing firecrackers in the reptiles\u2019 mouths or shooting them with bows and arrows has prompted animal rights groups to call for a government crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Environment &amp; Animal Society of Taiwan (East) said local and provincial government campaigns to encourage community involvement in controlling the spread of introduced species lacked guidelines, resulting in \u201ca chaotic free-for-all at the expense of the welfare of the targeted animals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/05\/spate-of-firecracker-attacks-on-taiwans-invasive-iguanas-sparks-alarm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights group calls for action after cash bounty schemes lead to reptiles being blown up and shot with a bow and arrowA spate of cruelty towards invasive iguanas in Taiwan including stuffing firecrackers in the reptiles\u2019 mouths or shooting them with bow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,719,74,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-invasive-species","category-taiwan","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29272,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29271\/revisions\/29272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}