{"id":6912,"date":"2017-11-09T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=6912"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:54:48","slug":"new-york-times-story-smuggled-beaten-and-drugged-the-illicit-global-ape-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/new-york-times-story-smuggled-beaten-and-drugged-the-illicit-global-ape-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Story: Smuggled, Beaten and Drugged: The Illicit Global Ape Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2997\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2997\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/orangutan-cage-background-e1510246312623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo (not from this article)\u00a0from the OC archives. courtesy of CITES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><span class=\"byline\">By\u00a0 Jeffrey Gettleman for the New York Times<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sting began, as so many things do these days, on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"353\" data-total-count=\"462\">Daniel Stiles, a self-styled ape trafficking detective in Kenya, had been scouring Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp for weeks, looking for pictures of gorillas, chimps or orangutans. He was hoping to chip away at an illicit global trade that has captured or killed tens of thousands of apes and pushed some endangered species to the brink of extinction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"101\" data-total-count=\"563\">\u201cThe way they do business,\u201d he said of ape traffickers, \u201cmakes the Mafia look like amateurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"352\" data-total-count=\"915\">After hundreds of searches, Mr. Stiles found an Instagram account offering dozens of rare animals for sale, including baby chimpanzees and orangutans dressed in children\u2019s clothes. He sent an email to an address on the account \u2014 \u201clooking for young otans\u201d (the industry standard slang for orangutans) \u2014 and several days later received a reply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"54\" data-total-count=\"969\">\u201c2 babies, 7.5k each. Special introductory price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"54\" data-total-count=\"969\"><strong><em>This excerpt from a news article appeared in and is courtesy of the New York Times and can be read in its entirety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/04\/world\/africa\/ape-trafficking-bonobos-orangutans.html\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0 Jeffrey Gettleman for the New York Times The sting began, as so many things do these days, on social media. Daniel Stiles, a self-styled ape trafficking detective in Kenya, had been scouring Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp for weeks, looking for pictures of gorillas, chimps or orangutans. 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