{"id":61047,"date":"2024-01-09T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/09\/new-caledonia-court-bans-shark-culls-amid-environmental-backlash"},"modified":"2024-01-09T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T23:23:00","slug":"new-caledonia-court-bans-shark-culls-amid-environmental-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61047","title":{"rendered":"New Caledonia court bans shark culls amid environmental backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities had begun hunting sharks after a series of attacks in 2023 and say they will appeal the decision<\/p>\n<p>A court in New Caledonia\u2019s capital Noumea has ordered authorities to stop culling sharks, a practice brought in after a series of attacks last year, one of which killed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/shark-attack-kills-australian-tourist-at-crowded-beach-in-new-caledonia\">Australian tourist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The administrative court said that the systematic culls were \u201cdisproportionate in regard to the aim of protecting human life,\u201d in a judgment made public on 28 December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/09\/new-caledonia-court-bans-shark-culls-amid-environmental-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities had begun hunting sharks after a series of attacks in 2023 and say they will appeal the decisionA court in New Caledonia\u2019s capital Noumea has ordered authorities to stop culling sharks, a practice brought in after a series of attacks last y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"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":[41,468,1102,874,1816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-marine-life","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-sharks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61048,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047\/revisions\/61048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}