{"id":28609,"date":"2024-05-11T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=28609"},"modified":"2024-05-11T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T10:30:19","slug":"a-threatening-copper-crocodile-shot-dead-in-lahad-datu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2024\/05\/11\/a-threatening-copper-crocodile-shot-dead-in-lahad-datu\/","title":{"rendered":"A threatening copper crocodile shot dead in Lahad Datu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAHAD DATU: A threatening 4-metre-long male copper crocodile was shot dead by the Wildlife Department (JHL) forces in Kampung Sapagaya last Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sylvester Wong, an assistant from the Lahad Datu JHL, said they received a complaint from the villagers around 9:00 p.m..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A crocodile emerged in the Sapagaya river near the villagers&#8217; houses, and they were worried it would endanger other residents,&#8221; he said in a media statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that two JHL staff members then rushed to the location for further action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A shot was fired, hitting the crocodile, and the reptile&#8217;s carcass was successfully lifted with the help of the villagers, then taken for further action,&#8221; Sylvester explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHAD DATU: A threatening 4-metre-long male copper crocodile was shot dead by the Wildlife Department (JHL) forces in Kampung Sapagaya last Tuesday. Sylvester Wong, an assistant from the Lahad Datu JHL, said they received a complaint from the villagers around 9:00 p.m.. &#8220;A crocodile emerged in the Sapagaya river near the villagers&#8217; houses, and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28611,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28609\/revisions\/28611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}