{"id":8486,"date":"2013-04-06T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2013-04-05T23:14:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T03:14:16","slug":"why-the-taliban-have-been-good-for-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/why-the-taliban-have-been-good-for-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Taliban Have Been Good For Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/falcon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8488\" alt=\"falcon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/falcon.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/falcon.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/falcon-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even the darkest cloud can have a silver lining, in this case for falcons, writes Elias Groll:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">A prime Pakistani falcon can be worth up to $100,000, sold in the Arab world for hunting<\/span><\/li>\n<li>But this is on the black market. In 2005 the falcons were labelled an endangered species, with only 2,000 of the birds in the tribal region<\/li>\n<li>Violence has intensified since that date; the region is a battle ground, with Pakistani army offensives and CIA drone strikes.<\/li>\n<li>As the area became too dangerous for hunters and poachers, falcon populations have been recovering. By 2008 the population of falcons had quadrupled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The bitter irony of a brutal civil war creating significant environmental benefits is not something that has environmentalists looking to Pakistan as a model for conservation strategies. Still, the falcons are probably happy&#8221; Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/04\/03\/taliban_have_been_great_for_falcons\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/04\/03\/taliban_have_been_great_for_falcons\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the darkest cloud can have a silver lining, in this case for falcons, writes Elias Groll: A prime Pakistani falcon can be worth up to $100,000, sold in the Arab world for hunting But this is on the black market. In 2005 the falcons were labelled an endangered species, with only 2,000 of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/falcon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}