{"id":8603,"date":"2019-09-06T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T03:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/06\/sea-borne-invasion-of-wild-boar-swamp-mystical-malaysian-island"},"modified":"2019-09-06T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T03:02:23","slug":"sea-borne-invasion-of-wild-boar-swamps-mystical-malaysian-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8603","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sea-borne invasion&#8217; of wild boar swamps mystical Malaysian island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fishermen report seeing \u2018snouts in the dark\u2019 on Malacca Strait, one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes<\/p>\n<p>A mystical Malaysian island is grappling with a \u201csea-borne invasion\u201d of wild boar, which some believe are swimming kilometres across one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes before destroying crops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sea-borne invasion of wild boars leaves us in despair as the animal population is increasing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2019\/09\/05\/melaka-grappling-with-invasion-of-indonesian-wild-pigs\">said Norhizam Hassan Baktee<\/a>, chairman of the Malacca agriculture committee, of the influx on the island of Pulau Besar.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/06\/sea-borne-invasion-of-wild-boar-swamp-mystical-malaysian-island\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishermen report seeing \u2018snouts in the dark\u2019 on Malacca Strait, one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanesA mystical Malaysian island is grappling with a \u201csea-borne invasion\u201d of wild boar, which some believe are swimming kilometres across one of the wor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[265,41,65,156,719,70,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-indonesia","category-invasive-species","category-malaysia","category-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8707,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions\/8707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}