{"id":123723,"date":"2025-10-15T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123723\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:41:10","slug":"hard-evidence-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123723\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Evidence | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Westberg&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Westberg (Sweden\/Portugal) documents the stark reality facing zebra populations in the shadow of the bushmeat trade.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus was on assignment when this zebra was brought before a magistrate as evidence, along with the suspected poachers.<\/p>\n<p>It had been caught in a snare and killed inside a protected area.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal trade in wild-caught meat has led to declining wildlife populations in Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is complex.<\/p>\n<p>Wild meat is in demand as a luxury product, with over 1,034 tonnes (1,140 tons) consumed annually in the capital, Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, many local communities rely on it for subsistence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Westberg&#8217;s Image Marcus Westberg (Sweden\/Portugal) documents the stark reality facing zebra populations in the shadow of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-123723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}