{"id":3703,"date":"2019-07-11T06:20:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"endangered-rhino-numbers-soar-by-1000-in-tanzania-after-crackdown-on-poaching-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/11\/endangered-rhino-numbers-soar-by-1000-in-tanzania-after-crackdown-on-poaching-gangs\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Rhino Numbers \u2018Soar By 1,000%\u2019 In Tanzania After Crackdown On Poaching Gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By The Independent<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of\nendangered&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/rhinos\">rhinos<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a>&nbsp;has risen by 1,000 per cent after a government\ncrackdown on organized gangs guilty of industrial-scale&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Poaching\">poaching<\/a>, officials claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And elephant populations\nhave risen by nearly half in five years, thanks to a blitz on illegal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ivory\">ivory<\/a>&nbsp;hunters, the president\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years ago the country, which has been described as\n\u201cground zero\u201d of the poaching crisis, had just 15 rhinos, but a statement said\nthe figure now was 167. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\/rhino-endangered-numbers-tanzania-poaching-elephant-horn-ivory-china-a8999821.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Independent The number of endangered&nbsp;rhinos&nbsp;in&nbsp;Tanzania&nbsp;has risen by 1,000 per cent after a government crackdown on organized gangs guilty of industrial-scale&nbsp;poaching, officials claim. And elephant populations have risen by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3704,"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-3703","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\/3703","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=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}