{"id":75776,"date":"2019-03-19T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T08:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=75776"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T08:17:02","slug":"191-arrested-for-wildlife-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/19\/191-arrested-for-wildlife-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"191 arrested for wildlife crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Rebecca Chimjeka: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aggrey-masi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-65704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aggrey-masi-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aggrey-masi-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aggrey-masi.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Minister of Natural Resources Aggrey Masi has said the arrest of 191 people for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wildlife-crimes-still-haunting-malawi\/\">wildlife crimes<\/a> in the past year is a milestone in the fight against wildlife crime.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said this during the launch of the 2015 to 2018 report on illegal wildlife trade.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, within 18 months after amending the National Parks and Wildlife Act in 2017, 191 poachers got arrested and 112 custodial sentences were meted out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe amended Wildlife Act of 2017 has significantly stiffened wildlife penalty provisions. That has made Malawi treat the crimes as serious,\u201d<\/em> Masi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Masi also commended the Federal Republic of Germany for pumping taxpayers\u2019 money in the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Germany Ambassador to Malawi, J\u00fcrgen Bosch, described the report as an important document.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cPoaching and illegal trade in wildlife products are a global challenge and trafficking in wildlife is the fourth most profitable criminal enterprise worldwide after trafficking in drugs, guns and people,\u201d<\/em> he said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said his government\u2019s common goal was to preserve the world\u2019s natural heritage, including Malawi\u2019s wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rebecca Chimjeka: Minister of Natural Resources Aggrey Masi has said the arrest of 191 people for wildlife crimes in the past year is a milestone in the fight against wildlife crime. The minister said this during the launch of the 2015 to 2018 report on illegal wildlife trade. According to the report, within 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75781,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75776\/revisions\/75781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}