{"id":4167,"date":"2019-07-29T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"further-wildlife-discussions-on-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/29\/further-wildlife-discussions-on-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Wildlife Discussions On Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Botswana Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botswana and Kenya are to hold further discussions on the ivory issue with a view to reaching a consensus, President Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have instructed Ministers of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, and Defense to look into this matter further and to bring the matter to the conclusion soon,\u201d he said in an interview Wednesday at the end of his three-day state visit to Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the issue around wildlife\neconomy, particularly trade in ivory, was one of several he discussed with his\nKenyan Counterpart President Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Botswana and Kenya hold two\ndiametrically opposed views on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Botswana and other\ncountries within the SADC bloc wanted trade in ivory legalized, Kenya and\nothers have demonstrated resistance on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.gov.bw\/news-details.php?nid=50609\">original\narticle<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.gov.bw\/index.php\">Botswana Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana Daily News Botswana and Kenya are to hold further discussions on the ivory issue with a view to reaching a consensus, President Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi has said. \u201cWe have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4168,"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-4167","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\/4167","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=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}