{"id":4926,"date":"2019-08-28T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"grey-crowned-crane-numbers-on-a-sharp-rise-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/28\/grey-crowned-crane-numbers-on-a-sharp-rise-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Crowned Crane Numbers On A Sharp Rise In Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\u00a0Julius Bizimungu<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of wild grey\ncrowned cranes in Rwanda has reached impressive levels driven by measures that\nhave contained the illegal trade of the endangered species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary data of the\nlatest annual national crane census by Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association\n(RWCA) shows that the number of these birds has reached 748. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is higher than the past\ntwo years where the number of the endangered species were recorded at 459 and\n487 in 2017 and 2018, respectively, thanks to the efforts of the community\nconservation champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RWCA has not yet publicly shared the final report but Olivier Nsengimana, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/rwanda\/crested-crane-conservationist\">renowned conservationist of grey cranes\u00a0<\/a>and the organization\u2019s founder, said the census was completed a few days ago\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/grey-crowned-crane-numbers-sharp-rise-rwanda\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Julius Bizimungu The number of wild grey crowned cranes in Rwanda has reached impressive levels driven by measures that have contained the illegal trade of the endangered species. Preliminary data&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4927,"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-4926","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\/4926","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=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}