{"id":2101,"date":"2021-07-09T05:42:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T03:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/wild-tales-of-illegal-animal-trading-podcasts-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2021-07-09T05:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T03:42:45","slug":"wild-tales-of-illegal-animal-trading-podcasts-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/wild-tales-of-illegal-animal-trading-podcasts-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild tales of illegal animal trading \u2013 podcasts of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Natural History Museum\u2019s new podcast covers poaching, smuggling and more. Plus: To Live and Die in LA returns, and Atlas Obscura offers instant wanderlust<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/discover\/wild-crimes.html\">Wild Crimes<\/a><\/strong><br \/>As the Natural History Museum\u2019s Tori Herridge informs us, wildlife crime is the fourth most lucrative illegal industry in the world, after narcotics, human trafficking and arms dealing. The first episode of this engaging podcast on the subject, helmed by Herridge and her colleague Khalil Thirlaway, considers the demand for pangolins, for the production of everything from wine to shoes. Episode two focuses on reptile smuggling, and episode three on the black market eel trade, with instalments on ivory, bushmeat, fossils and more on the way<br \/><em>Hannah J Davies<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2021\/jul\/09\/wild-tales-of-animal-trading-podcasts-of-the-week\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e17a1ea473506b40617b926473f0019d1644bb45\/0_457_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=87d546f25e1b28af2ccd89336f3b2490\" title=\"Wild tales of illegal animal trading \u2013 podcasts of the week\" \/>The Natural History Museum\u2019s new podcast covers poaching, smuggling and more. Plus: To Live and Die in LA returns, and Atlas Obscura offers instant wanderlust<br \/>\nWild CrimesAs the Natural History Museum\u2019s Tori Herridge informs us, wildlife crime is the fourth most lucrative illegal industry in the world, after narcotics, human trafficking and arms dealing. The first episode of this engaging podcast on the subject, helmed by Herridge and her colleague Khalil Thirlaway, considers the demand for pangolins, for the production of everything from wine to shoes. Episode two focuses on reptile smuggling, and episode three on the black market eel trade, with instalments on ivory, bushmeat, fossils and more on the wayHannah J Davies Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Natural History Museum\u2019s new podcast covers poaching, smuggling and more. Plus: To Live and Die in LA returns, and Atlas Obscura offers instant wanderlust Wild CrimesAs the Natural History Museum\u2019s Tori Herridge informs us, wildlife crime is the fourth most lucrative illegal industry in the world, after narcotics, human trafficking and arms dealing. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/09\/wild-tales-of-illegal-animal-trading-podcasts-of-the-week\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wild tales of illegal animal trading \u2013 podcasts of the week<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}