{"id":45243,"date":"2022-06-07T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T06:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jun\/07\/kangaroos-in-the-street-and-a-suitcase-of-iguanas-india-exotic-pet-problem-aoe"},"modified":"2022-06-07T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T06:45:04","slug":"kangaroos-in-the-street-and-a-suitcase-of-iguanas-indias-exotic-pet-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45243","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroos in the street and a suitcase of iguanas: India\u2019s exotic pet problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned marsupials and other trafficked species reveal the country\u2019s growing illegal trade, driven by a desire for exclusive and costly status symbols<\/p>\n<p>From the red-eared slider turtle, cockatoo and falcon to the yellow-cheeked gibbon, capuchin monkey and orangutan, nothing is too much for those demanding unusual pets in India. But it was the sight of three kangaroos wandering the streets of West Bengal\u2019s Jalpaiguri district in April that brought home the extent of the country\u2019s exotic pet trade.<\/p>\n<p>The malnourished kangaroos were intercepted after tipoffs from local residents. One of the rescued marsupials later died, while the remaining two are recovering and will be rehomed at a nearby zoo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jun\/07\/kangaroos-in-the-street-and-a-suitcase-of-iguanas-india-exotic-pet-problem-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned marsupials and other trafficked species reveal the country\u2019s growing illegal trade, driven by a desire for exclusive and costly status symbolsFrom the red-eared slider turtle, cockatoo and falcon to the yellow-cheeked gibbon, capuchin monkey &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1697,"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":[456,65,2073,62,61,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-environment","category-illegal-wildlife-trade","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45243","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\/1697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45244,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45243\/revisions\/45244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}