{"id":8441,"date":"2026-04-15T14:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8441"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:20:28","slug":"ant-smuggler-sentenced-to-a-year-in-jail-by-kenyan-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8441","title":{"rendered":"Ant smuggler sentenced to a year in jail by Kenyan court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>More than 2,200 ants were found in Zhang Kequn\u2019s luggage at Nairobi airport, with baggage destined for China<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese national has been sentenced to a year in prison and fined by a Nairobi court for attempting to smuggle thousands of ants out of Kenya, a lucrative trade in east Africa that was exposed last year.<\/p>\n<p>The insects are mostly destined for China, the US and Europe, where they become pets and can be worth about $100 each.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/apr\/15\/ant-smuggler-sentenced-to-a-year-in-jail-by-kenyan-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2,200 ants were found in Zhang Kequn\u2019s luggage at Nairobi airport, with baggage destined for China A Chinese national has been sentenced to a year in prison and fined by a Nairobi court for attempting to smuggle thousands of ants out of Kenya, a lucrative trade in east Africa that was exposed last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,327,42,153,85,507,91,133,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-animals","category-china","category-conservation","category-environment","category-illegal-wildlife-trade","category-kenya","category-wildlife","category-world-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}