{"id":21962,"date":"2015-07-05T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21962"},"modified":"2015-07-05T07:38:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T07:38:02","slug":"the-african-leopards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/the-african-leopards\/","title":{"rendered":"The african leopards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how important the panther is we see<br \/>\nHunters and farmers and the commercial world now<br \/>\nSo threateningly<br \/>\nAbusing them for their skins and so creating a saddened state<br \/>\nWhere panthers are being slaughtered at an alarming rate<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has got to some how  get to grips with this<br \/>\nThe wild iconic animals bring africa much bliss<br \/>\nBut killing them and abusing them is unsustainable stuff<br \/>\nAnd really looking at numbers truthfully not enough<\/p>\n<p>Was being done to highlight this till Panthera came along<br \/>\nSet up to protect the species to sing the leopards song<br \/>\nTo impress upon the Shembe church that wild skins had to be<br \/>\nReplaced by fake fur it was cheaper  and they would have to see<\/p>\n<p>Their way to using fake fur to save the leopard or<br \/>\nFace the possibility they are lost for evermore<br \/>\nMozambique and Zimbabwe were  abusing them because<br \/>\nTheir laws were lax and uncaring but really now it was<\/p>\n<p>Possible to make a fabric almost as good as the real<br \/>\nPanther Skins and much cheaper in  quality and feel<br \/>\n18,000 furs are coming via China we now hear<br \/>\nSupported by Cartier and really it is clear<\/p>\n<p>We have to save the animals not slaughter them at will<br \/>\nFor these creatures are iconic and their blood we must not spill<br \/>\nThe church has tried to change its tune and hope is at last here<br \/>\nAnd The amambatha&#8217;s in fake fur will quite soon appear<br \/>\nWhich will save so many Panthers being slaughtered one would say<br \/>\nAnd this will be the answer and should now save the day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how important the panther is we see Hunters and farmers and the commercial world now So threateningly Abusing them for their skins and so creating a saddened state Where panthers are being slaughtered at an alarming rate South &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/the-african-leopards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-leopards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21967,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962\/revisions\/21967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}