{"id":48811,"date":"2022-09-25T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/25\/turtle-concern-australian-businessman-denies-threatening-to-sell-conflict-islands-to-china"},"modified":"2022-09-25T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T01:00:19","slug":"turtle-concern-australian-businessman-denies-threatening-to-sell-conflict-islands-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48811","title":{"rendered":"Turtle concern: Australian businessman denies threatening to sell Conflict Islands to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Gowrie-Smith says he was frustrated the Australian government did not respond to urgent funding request for turtle conservation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The owner of 21 tropical islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea says he never threatened to sell them to China and his main aim is to save the turtles that nest there.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Gowrie-Smith, an Australian businessman and investor, bought the Conflict Islands, which lie less than 1,000km from the Australian coast, almost two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/25\/turtle-concern-australian-businessman-denies-threatening-to-sell-conflict-islands-to-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Gowrie-Smith says he was frustrated the Australian government did not respond to urgent funding request for turtle conservationGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe owner of 21 tropical islands off the coast of Papu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"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":[265,41,43,50,456,464,65,468,874,267,1767,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-conservation","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-penny-wong","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48811","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\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48812,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48811\/revisions\/48812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}