{"id":10073,"date":"2013-11-13T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2013-11-13T16:50:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:50:53","slug":"japans-deer-hunting-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/japans-deer-hunting-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Deer Hunting Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/japanese-hunter-woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10075\" alt=\"japanese hunter woman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/japanese-hunter-woman.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/japanese-hunter-woman.jpg 870w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/japanese-hunter-woman-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of all the problems to have occured after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, a surge in wild boar is perhaps the least expected. This is no laughing matter for the locals, Gwynn Guilford reports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deer and wild boar have become a nuisance across Japan. They both eat crops, and remove foliage from hills increasing the risk of landslides. A wild boar injured eight people in Hyogo last year.<\/li>\n<li>Total damages from wild animals are estimated at $200 million a year. But most hunters are men over the age of 60, and decreasing in number.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the women. Rules on gun ownership in Japan are very strict, and include alerting the police every time a shot is fired. But as boar and deer have no natural predators on the islands, hunting is considered necessary to act as a population control.<\/li>\n<li>The tagline of the Woman Hunters of Hakaido is &#8216;shoot and eat&#8217;. Bringing home fresh meat is a significant focus of the women hunting groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/146514\/wild-boars-and-deer-are-overrunning-japan-but-women-are-out-to-stop-them\/\">here <\/a>for the full article. For the vegetarians amongst us, the article doesn&#8217;t mention any alternatives to shooting for limiting numbers. The mayor of Bungo-Ono (Southwest Japan), does though: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424127887324355904578159161374684432\">wolves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/146514\/wild-boars-and-deer-are-overrunning-japan-but-women-are-out-to-stop-them\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the problems to have occured after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, a surge in wild boar is perhaps the least expected. This is no laughing matter for the locals, Gwynn Guilford reports: Deer and wild boar have become a nuisance across Japan. They both eat crops, and remove foliage from hills increasing the risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/japanese-hunter-woman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10079,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions\/10079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}