{"id":6814,"date":"2012-10-26T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2012-10-26T05:28:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:28:44","slug":"from-natg-religious-ivory-demand-killing-elephants-by-thousands-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/26\/from-natg-religious-ivory-demand-killing-elephants-by-thousands-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"(From NatG)  &#8216;Religious Ivory Demand Killing Elephants by Thousands, Report Says&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> While it&#8217;s impossible to say exactly how many elephants are slaughtered annually, a conservative estimate for 2011 is more than 25,000. And thousands of those are dying to satisfy religious devotion, their tusks smuggled into countries to be carved into religious artifacts: ivory baby Jesuses and saints for Catholics in the <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/countries\/philippines-guide\/\">Philippines<\/a>, Islamic prayer beads for Muslims and Coptic crosses for Christians in <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/countries\/egypt-guide\/\">Egypt<\/a>, amulets and carvings for Buddhists in <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/countries\/thailand-guide\/\">Thailand<\/a>, and in <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/countries\/china-guide\/\">China<\/a>\u2014the world&#8217;s biggest ivory-consumer country\u2014elaborate Buddhist and Taoist carvings for investors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE ARTICLE CLICK THE IMAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2012\/09\/120914-ivory-religious-elephants-ban-science-religion\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6815\" title=\"59217_420x315-cb1347561567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/59217_420x315-cb1347561567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/59217_420x315-cb1347561567.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/59217_420x315-cb1347561567-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2012\/09\/120914-ivory-religious-elephants-ban-science-religion\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6819\" title=\"news-ivory-religious-icons_59218_600x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/news-ivory-religious-icons_59218_600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/news-ivory-religious-icons_59218_600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/news-ivory-religious-icons_59218_600x450-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 While it&#8217;s impossible to say exactly how many elephants are slaughtered annually, a conservative estimate for 2011 is more than 25,000. And thousands of those are dying to satisfy religious devotion, their tusks smuggled into countries to be carved into religious artifacts: ivory baby Jesuses and saints for Catholics in the Philippines, Islamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6820,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}