{"id":31038,"date":"2021-04-17T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T05:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/17\/philippines-seizes-illegally-harvested-giant-clam-shells-worth-25m"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T05:55:18","slug":"philippines-seizes-illegally-harvested-giant-clam-shells-worth-25m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31038","title":{"rendered":"Philippines seizes illegally harvested giant clam shells worth $25m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 200-tonne haul dwarfs previous record as poachers turn to ivory substitute amid crackdown on elephant tusk trade<\/p>\n<p>Around 200 tonnes of illegally harvested giant clam shells worth nearly $25m have been seized in the Philippines in one of the biggest known operations of its kind in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Conservationists have expressed alarm over the surging illicit trade in the endangered creatures, which are used as a substitute for ivory following a global crackdown in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/may\/28\/africas-elephant-poaching-is-in-decline-analysis-suggests\">the trade of elephant tusks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/17\/philippines-seizes-illegally-harvested-giant-clam-shells-worth-25m\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 200-tonne haul dwarfs previous record as poachers turn to ivory substitute amid crackdown on elephant tusk tradeAround 200 tonnes of illegally harvested giant clam shells worth nearly $25m have been seized in the Philippines in one of the biggest k&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[456,464,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-endangered-species","category-philippines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31039,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038\/revisions\/31039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}