{"id":322369,"date":"2022-12-13T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/competicao-de-falcoes-distribuiu-us-306-milhoes\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:56:51","slug":"ksa-falconry-festival-awarded-usd-30-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/ksa-falconry-festival-awarded-usd-30-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"KSA: Falconry festival awarded USD 30.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The <strong>King Abdulaziz International Falconry Festival<\/strong> ended this Tuesday (13) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, giving over SAR 115 million (about USD 30.6 million at the current rate) in prizes. The top prize was SAR 30 million (about USD 8 million). The festival opened on November 28 at the <strong>Saudi Falcon Club<\/strong> and brought together local and foreign competitors, amateurs, and professionals, of different ages.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_322354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-322354\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-322354 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/falcao-festival-saudita-foto-divulgacao-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/falcao-festival-saudita-foto-divulgacao-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/falcao-festival-saudita-foto-divulgacao-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/falcao-festival-saudita-foto-divulgacao-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/falcao-festival-saudita-foto-divulgacao.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-322354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Falcons are pets in the Arabian peninsula<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to a press release, through this festival, part of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Vision 2030 strategic plan, the country seeks to revive the regional cultural heritage with falcon racing, preserve the hobby, support amateur and professional breeders and help to develop the <strong>skills of falconers<\/strong>. Walid Al-Taweel, the spokesman for the Saudi Falconry Club, said the festival focuses on the new generations and organizes competitions to attract the attention of young falconers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Al-Taweel, the festival has become one of the first of its kind in the region and the world. Saudi Arabia is a significant hub for <strong>falconry<\/strong>, with the birds considered pets in the country and region. Last year, an auction organized by the club holding the festival sold the most expensive falcon in the world, the \u201c<strong>Qarmousha Ultra White<\/strong>,\u201d for SAR 1.75 million (about USD 466,000).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-322364\">Press release<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-322354\">Press release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international falconry festival took place in Riyadh from November 28 to December 13, giving SAR 115 million in prizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":322364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3066,109],"tags":[37492,37493,37494,37495,14429,37506,37501,37504,32570,2651,2652,37496,37497,37505,37498,37502,37499,37503,37500],"class_list":{"0":"post-322369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-clube-saudita-de-falcoes-en","10":"tag-competicao-de-falcoes-en","11":"tag-falcao-mais-caro-en","12":"tag-falcao-qarmousha-ultra-white-en","13":"tag-falcon","14":"tag-falcon-auction","15":"tag-falcon-competition","16":"tag-falcon-festival","17":"tag-falconers","18":"tag-falconry","19":"tag-falcons","20":"tag-festival-de-falcoes-en","21":"tag-festival-internacional-de-falcoes-rei-abdulaziz-en","22":"tag-king-abdulaziz-international-falcon-festival","23":"tag-leilao-falcao-en","24":"tag-most-expensive-falcon","25":"tag-qarmousha-ultra-white-en","26":"tag-qarmousha-ultra-white-falcon","27":"tag-saudi-falcon-club"},"wps_subtitle":"An international falconry festival took place in Riyadh from November 28 to December 13, giving SAR 115 million in prizes.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}