{"id":2569,"date":"2019-05-23T07:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T07:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","slug":"botswana-lifts-ban-on-elephant-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/23\/botswana-lifts-ban-on-elephant-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Lifts Ban On Elephant Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botswana on\nWednesday lifted its ban on elephant hunting, saying the population had\nincreased and farmers&#8217; livelihoods were being impacted, in a move set to\ntrigger outrage from conservationists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prohibition\non elephant hunting was introduced in the southern African country in 2014 by\nthen-president Ian Khama, a keen environmentalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But lawmakers from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) have been lobbying to overturn the ban, saying numbers have become unmanageably large in some areas\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Botswana-lifts-ban-on-elephant-hunting\/4552902-5127650-wg450u\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related article  <br><a href=\"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wildlife-crime-the-african-elephant-story\/\">https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wildlife-crime-the-african-elephant-story\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Botswana on Wednesday lifted its ban on elephant hunting, saying the population had increased and farmers&#8217; livelihoods were being impacted, in a move set to trigger outrage from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}