{"id":2775,"date":"2019-05-28T07:32:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"zimbabwe-sells-elephants-to-china-and-dubai-for-2-7-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/28\/zimbabwe-sells-elephants-to-china-and-dubai-for-2-7-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Sells Elephants To China And Dubai For $2.7 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Columbus S. Mavhunga, CNN<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe made $2.7 million from the sale of more than 90 elephants\nto China and Dubai, according to a spokesman for the country&#8217;s wildlife agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Money from the sales will be used to support conservation efforts, said Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesman Tinashe Farawo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farawo said the agency was having difficulty controlling the population in its national parks, and that proceeds from the sales, made over a six-year period, will be used for the upkeep of its remaining elephants. &#8220;We are struggling with a ballooning number of elephants. We believe in sustainable utilization of our resources, and these elephants must pay for their upkeep,&#8221; Farawo told CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said water levels were running low in rivers in its parks and officials have been using alternative water sources to feed the animals.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/14\/africa\/zimbabwe-sells-elephants-intl\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus S. Mavhunga, CNN Zimbabwe made $2.7 million from the sale of more than 90 elephants to China and Dubai, according to a spokesman for the country&#8217;s wildlife agency. Money&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2776,"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-2775","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\/2775","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=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}