{"id":258005,"date":"2018-12-23T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmhvcnNldGFsay5jby5uei8yMDE4LzEyLzI0L2V0aGlvcGlhLXdvcmtpbmctZG9ua2V5cy1jaGluYS1za2luLXRyYWRlL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T18:31:48","slug":"experts-call-on-ethiopia-to-take-steps-to-protect-donkey-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/258005","title":{"rendered":"Experts call on Ethiopia to take steps to protect donkey population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK and Ethiopian experts have called for efforts to safeguard Ethiopia&#8217;s donkey population amid the growing demand for the skin of the animal in China.<\/p>\n<p>The experts, who attended a meeting last month organized by the Ethiopian government and The Donkey Sanctuary charity, noted that the situation is akin to &#8220;a ticking time bomb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has the largest population of donkeys in the world. The skin of the animal is highly prized in China where it is used to make traditional medicine. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsetalk.co.nz\/2018\/12\/24\/ethiopia-working-donkeys-china-skin-trade\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia moves to protect working donkeys from China&#8217;s skin trade&nbsp;&nbsp;HorsetalkAsia&#8217;s donkey skin trade is \u201ca ticking time bomb\u201d if immediate action is not taken to ensure effective biosecurity measures, delegates to a world-first meeting in &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/donkey-3801863_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-157n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258864,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258005\/revisions\/258864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}