{"id":761,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/wild-sharks-in-brazils-waters-test-positive-for-cocaine\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:55","slug":"wild-sharks-in-brazils-waters-test-positive-for-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/wild-sharks-in-brazils-waters-test-positive-for-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild sharks in Brazil&#039;s waters test positive for cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-07-24 12:01:16<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Sharks off the Brazilian coast have tested positive for cocaine.<BR><br \/>\nA new study by local scientists found high concentrations of the drugs in the bodies of 13 sharpnose sharks that were caught in fishermen&#8217;s nets off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.<BR><br \/>\nIn a stark demonstration of how human drug taking is damaging the natural world, all 13 of the sharks tested positive for the substance.<BR><br \/>\nIt is unclear how the cocaine ended up in the bodies of the sharks but the concentration was 100 times greater than had been found in other marine animals.<BR><br \/>\nEnrico Mendes Saggioro, study coordinator at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, said: &#8220;Regardless of where the drug came from &#8211; which is still not possible to determine &#8211; the results show that cocaine is being widely traded and moved in Brazil.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Cocaine has a low half-life in the environment&#8230; so, for us to find it in an animal like this, it means a lot of drugs are entering the biota.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;In other studies, I had already found cocaine in rivers flowing into the sea off Rio, but it was a surprise to find it in sharks &#8211; and at such a high level.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-07-24 12:01:16 Sharks off the Brazilian coast have tested positive for cocaine. A new study by local scientists found high concentrations of the drugs in the bodies of 13 sharpnose&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}