{"id":654,"date":"2014-01-16T21:14:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T05:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=654"},"modified":"2014-01-16T21:14:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T05:14:28","slug":"czechs-seize-2-rhino-horns-at-prague-airport-believed-meant-for-southeast-asia-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/16\/czechs-seize-2-rhino-horns-at-prague-airport-believed-meant-for-southeast-asia-black-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Czechs seize 2 rhino horns at Prague airport believed meant for southeast Asia black market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRAGUE, Czech Republic\u2014Czech officials say airport customs authorities have seized two horns of endangered rhinoceroses believed to be destined for the black market in\u00a0southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Customs official Sarka Miskovska says the horns, weighing 6.77 kilograms (15 pounds), were hidden in a parcel with electrical materials. Miskovska said Thursday its true content was revealed by an X-ray scanner at Prague\u2019s Vaclav Havel Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Simona Cigankova of the Czech Environmental Inspectorate says the horns belonged to the southern white rhino and their black market value is estimated at $360,000.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for rhino horns has skyrocketed in recent years, leading to increased prices on the black market. Despite no evidence, there\u2019s a belief in Asia that taking ground-up horn cures diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAGUE, Czech Republic\u2014Czech officials say airport customs authorities have seized two horns of endangered rhinoceroses believed to be destined for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}