{"id":34817,"date":"2019-09-07T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34817"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:59:05","slug":"sea-borne-invasion-of-wild-boar-swamps-mystical-malaysian-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34817","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sea-borne invasion&#8217; of wild boar swamps mystical Malaysian island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fishermen report hear&#8217; snouts in the dark&rsquo; on Malacca Strait, one of the world&rsquo;s busiest shipping lanes<\/p>\n<p>A mystical Malaysian island is grappling with a &ldquo;sea-borne invasion&rdquo; of wild boar, which some believe are swimming kilometres across one of the world&rsquo;s busiest shipping lanes before destroying crops.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The sea-borne invasion of wild boars leaves us in despair as the animal population is increasing, &rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2019\/09\/05\/melaka-grappling-with-invasion-of-indonesian-wild-pigs\">said Norhizam Hassan Baktee<\/a>, chairman of the Malacca agriculture committee, of the influx on small island developing of Pulau Besar.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/06\/sea-borne-invasion-of-wild-boar-swamp-mystical-malaysian-island\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/06\/sea-borne-invasion-of-wild-boar-swamp-mystical-malaysian-island\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishermen report hear&#8217; snouts in the dark&rsquo; on Malacca Strait, one of the world&rsquo;s busiest shipping lanes A mystical Malaysian island is grappling with a &ldquo;sea-borne invasion&rdquo; of wild boar, which some believe are swimming kilometres across one of the world&rsquo;s busiest shipping lanes before destroying crops. &ldquo;The sea-borne invasion of wild boars leaves us &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[462,15682,1317,1059,18106,4981],"class_list":["post-34817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-asia-pacific","tag-environment","tag-indonesia","tag-malaysia","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/32721567846745.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}