{"id":8448,"date":"2016-01-28T12:51:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2016-01-28T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:51:57","slug":"leopard-hunting-effectively-banned-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/01\/leopard-hunting-effectively-banned-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard hunting effectively banned in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8450\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/leopard-980796_1280.jpg\" alt=\"leopard close up\" width=\"1280\" height=\"946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/leopard-980796_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/leopard-980796_1280-300x222.jpg 300w, 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hunting effectively banned in SA | Sustainable Tourism Alliance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Environment Department has set leopard hunting quotas at zero for 2016,  following a report that said the practice was unsustainable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,16,534,72,140],"tags":[576,575,205],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leopard hunting effectively banned in South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"South Africa&#039;s\u00a0Environment Department has set leopard hunting quotas at zero for 2016, \u00a0following a report that said the practice was unsustainable\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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