{"id":15849,"date":"2011-04-09T00:49:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T09:42:04","slug":"shameful-slaughter-of-a-great-hornbill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2011\/04\/09\/shameful-slaughter-of-a-great-hornbill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameful slaughter of a Great Hornbill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HornbillGr-ST060411.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HornbillGr-ST060411.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"HornbillGr-ST060411\" width=\"200\" height=\"510\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15842\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/greathornbill.poached.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/greathornbill.poached.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"greathornbill.poached\" width=\"290\" height=\"387\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/greathornbill.poached.jpg 290w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/greathornbill.poached-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image above (right), taken from of the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2011\/0227-hance_greathornbill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MONGABAY.COM<\/a>, shows five Malaysian soldiers posing proudly with a Great Hornbill (<em>Buceros bicornis<\/em>) they had earlier slaughtered.<\/p>\n<p>We were alerted to the post by birder <strong>Daisy O\u2019Neill<\/strong> of Penang, Malaysia.  Apparently the photograph appeared last year in Facebook but only posted in the above blog on 27th February 2011.<\/p>\n<p>According to Daisy, the Malaysian daily Star Publication of 4th April 2011 reported that the soldiers concerned had since been suspended. Singapore\u2019s Straits Times picked up the story and published it on 6th April (above left). The soldiers\u2019 excuse was that the hornbill was injured and they killed it to end its misery.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Hornbill is protected in Malaysia and this has angered local conservation groups, especially the Malaysian Nature Society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you love these birds and would like your children, grandchildren down the line and friends  to get a chance to see what these gorgeous birds look like in the wild  Malaysian forests, you would be educating and creating the awareness of avian conservation to pass the message around and shame  such  acts of pathetic ignorance,\u201d wrote Daisy.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the soldiers need serious counseling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daisy O&#8217;Neill <\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\nApril 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image above (right), taken from of the blog MONGABAY.COM, shows five Malaysian soldiers posing proudly with a Great Hornbill (Buceros bicornis) they had earlier slaughtered. We were alerted to the post by birder Daisy O\u2019Neill of Penang, Malaysia. Apparently the photograph appeared last year in Facebook but only posted in the above blog on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}