{"id":1017618,"date":"2026-06-30T07:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017618"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:34:22","slug":"for-sale-on-facebook-monkeys-rhino-horn-and-dead-pangolins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/for-sale-on-facebook-monkeys-rhino-horn-and-dead-pangolins\/","title":{"rendered":"For sale on Facebook: monkeys, rhino horn and dead pangolins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ghostly white creature curled up on a weighing scale is almost unrecognisable in the Facebook post offering it for sale. Only closer inspection reveals it to be a dead pangolin. <\/p>\n<p>The animal, one of the world&#8217;s most endangered and trafficked mammals, has been stripped of its scales and is being advertised by a Thai account selling &#8220;seasonal wild delicacies&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The post is one of dozens reviewed by AFP that illustrate what conservationists call rampant illegal wildlife trafficking across social media platforms, particularly those belonging to Facebook parent company Meta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ghostly white creature curled up on a weighing scale is almost unrecognisable in the Facebook post offering it for sale. Only closer inspection reveals it to be a dead pangolin. The animal, one of the world&#8217;s most endangered and trafficked mammals, has been stripped of its scales and is being advertised by a Thai account selling &#8220;seasonal wild delicacies&#8221;. The post is one of dozens reviewed by AFP that illustrate what conservationists call rampant illegal wildlife trafficking across social media platforms, particularly those belonging to Facebook parent company Meta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017640,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017618\/revisions\/1017640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}