{"id":6057,"date":"2019-10-22T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6057"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","slug":"dozens-of-elephants-die-in-zimbabwe-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/22\/dozens-of-elephants-die-in-zimbabwe-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Of Elephants Die In Zimbabwe Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 55 elephants have died in a month in Zimbabwe\ndue to a lack of food and water, its wildlife agency said Monday, as the\ncountry faces one of the worst droughts in its history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than five million rural Zimbabweans &#8212; nearly a\nthird of the population &#8212; are at risk of food shortages before the next\nharvest in 2020, the United Nations has warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shortages have been caused by the combined effects of\nan economic downturn and a drought blamed on the El Nino weather cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The impact is being felt at Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe&#8217;s\nlargest game reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Since September, we have lost at least 55 elephants in Hwange National Park due to starvation and lack of water,&#8221; Zimbabwe National Parks spokesman Tinashe Farawo told AFP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/55-elephants-dead-Zimbabwe-drought\/1066-5320114-nhp4q0z\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation At least 55 elephants have died in a month in Zimbabwe due to a lack of food and water, its wildlife agency said Monday, as the country&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6058,"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-6057","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\/6057","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=6057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}