{"id":17469,"date":"2018-09-13T03:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T03:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/wedge-tailed-eagle-mass-poisoning-prompts-australia-arrest\/57"},"modified":"2018-09-13T03:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T03:32:57","slug":"wedge-tailed-eagle-mass-poisoning-prompts-australia-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=17469","title":{"rendered":"Wedge-tailed eagle ‘mass poisoning’ prompts Australia arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"A Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The wedge-tailed eagle is Australia’s largest bird of prey <\/p>\n

A man has been charged following the deaths of at least 137 wedge-tailed eagles in Victoria, Australia.<\/p>\n

Authorities found the animals – Australia’s largest bird of prey and a protected species – in April, prompting raids on several properties.<\/p>\n

The man is alleged to have used poisoned baits to kill eagles since October 2016.<\/p>\n

State officials described it as the largest case of suspected wedge-tailed eagle killings they had ever seen.<\/p>\n

Authorities have previously said that the true number of dead birds may be even bigger.<\/p>\n

Image copyright DELWP Image caption The birds were allegedly poisoned with bait <\/p>\n

The carcasses were found hidden in scrub on properties that covered about 2,000 hectares in East Gippsland, the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning said.<\/p>\n

Authorities said the man was charged after an investigation involving about 30 people. They did not discuss a possible motive.<\/p>\n

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He was released on bail following his arrest on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that wedge-tailed eagles had become a “a major topic of conversation” among farmers who say they attack lambs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The wedge-tailed eagle is Australia’s largest bird of prey A man has been charged following the deaths of at least 137 wedge-tailed eagles in Victoria, Australia. Authorities found the animals – Australia’s largest bird of prey and a protected species – in April, prompting raids on several properties. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8055,8056,8057,8058,8059],"class_list":["post-17469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-afrika-siyah-kartali","tag-aquila-genus","tag-golden-eagle","tag-kaya-kartali","tag-kucuk-kartal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}