{"id":83093,"date":"2025-10-15T22:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83093\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:32:06","slug":"hard-evidence-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83093\/","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":83094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,3741,82,263,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":["post-83093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}