{"id":754026,"date":"2018-07-26T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754026"},"modified":"2018-07-26T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T13:04:34","slug":"botswana-may-put-elephants-in-cross-hairs-as-it-moves-to-lift-hunting-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754026","title":{"rendered":"Botswana may put elephants in cross-hairs as it moves to lift hunting ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Conservationists estimate the land-locked southern African country to have around 130,000 elephants, close to a third of the continent's population.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>REUTERS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Botswana, home to the world&#8217;s largest elephant population, may lift a ban on hunting for sport in the face of what the government says is growing conflict between humans and wildlife, a move sure to provoke protest from animal welfare groups. Conservationists estimate the land-locked southern African country to have around 130,000 elephants, close to a third of the continent&#8217;s population, but the government says the number is closer to 230,000, causing problems for small-scale farmers&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Botswana&#8217;s parliament passed a motion on June 21 to review and reconsider the ban, which was imposed by former president Ian Khama in 2014 after surveys showed declining wildlife populations in the north&#8230; &#8220;Communities have become very hostile and negative towards wildlife,&#8221; said Konstantinos Markus, a member of parliament from the wildlife-rich northwestern part of Botswana&#8230; Mike Chase, a scientist with Elephants Without Borders, a conservation organisation, said bringing back trophy hunting would have little impact on the elephant population or crop destruction by the pachyderms&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/botswana-may-put-elephants-cross-hairs-moves-lift-133639202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K9Y1bzbXdn0?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REUTERS: &#8216;Botswana, home to the world&#8217;s largest elephant population, may lift a ban on hunting for sport in the face of what the government says is growing conflict between humans and wildlife, a move sure to provoke protest from animal welfare groups. Conservationists estimate the land-locked southern African country to have around 130,000 elephants, close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,20,25],"tags":[27,31,32],"class_list":["post-754026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-farming","tag-free-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754028,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754026\/revisions\/754028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}