{"id":50303,"date":"2022-11-17T14:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T05:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/cambodian-wildlife-official-among-eight-charged-in-us-with-smuggling-endangered-monkeys"},"modified":"2022-11-17T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T05:32:57","slug":"cambodian-wildlife-official-among-eight-charged-in-us-with-smuggling-endangered-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50303","title":{"rendered":"Cambodian wildlife official among eight charged in US with smuggling endangered monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutor says official from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries was arrested en route to a conference on protecting endangered species<\/p>\n<p>Eight people in the US have been charged with smuggling endangered monkeys, including a Cambodian wildlife official arrested while travelling to a conference on protecting endangered species.<\/p>\n<p>The group \u2013 consisting of the Cambodian official, a colleague in that country\u2019s wildlife agency and six people connected to a Hong Kong-based company \u2013 were involved in breeding long-tailed macaques for scientific and academic research, supplying them to labs in Florida and Texas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/cambodian-wildlife-official-among-eight-charged-in-us-with-smuggling-endangered-monkeys\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutor says official from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries was arrested en route to a conference on protecting endangered speciesEight people in the US have been charged with smuggling endangered monkeys, including a Cambodian wildli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[265,361,456,464,65,47,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-cambodia","category-conservation","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-us-news","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50303","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50304,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50303\/revisions\/50304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}