{"id":87078,"date":"2020-08-11T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T05:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=87078"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T05:29:44","slug":"singapores-nparks-to-mark-elephant-day-by-crushing-nine-tonnes-of-ivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=87078","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s NParks to mark Elephant Day by crushing nine tonnes of ivory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SINGAPORE, Aug 11 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; National Parks Board of\u00a0Singapore (NParks) will be crushing nine tonnes of ivory worth S$18 million\u00a0to commemorate World Elephant Day, which falls on Aug 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ivory&nbsp;was&nbsp;seized from various shipments in past years, said NParks in a statement here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 21 last year&nbsp;alone, the republic&nbsp;seized&nbsp;8.8 tonnes or 1,548 pieces of raw elephant ivory&nbsp;packed in 137 bags and worth about S$17.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NParks, Singapore Customs and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority seized the ivory&nbsp;from a&nbsp;40-foot container that was on its way from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was&nbsp;dubbed the largest ivory seizure in Singapore to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NParks said the nine tonnes of ivory will be pulverised by an industrial rock crusher and the crushing process will be live-streamed on the NParksSG YouTube page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NParks&nbsp;manages more than 350 parks, 3,347 hectares of nature reserves, the Singapore Botanic Gardens, Jurong Lake Gardens, Pulau Ubin and the Sisters&#8217; Islands Marine Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE, Aug 11 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; National Parks Board of\u00a0Singapore (NParks) will be crushing nine tonnes of ivory worth S$18 million\u00a0to commemorate World Elephant Day, which falls on Aug 12. The ivory&nbsp;was&nbsp;seized from various shipments in past years, said NParks in a statement here today. On July 21 last year&nbsp;alone, the republic&nbsp;seized&nbsp;8.8 tonnes or 1,548 pieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":26368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}