{"id":7173,"date":"2019-12-16T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T05:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:45","slug":"living-with-elephant-killers-experiences-of-a-filmmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/16\/living-with-elephant-killers-experiences-of-a-filmmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Living With Elephant Killers: Experiences Of A Filmmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\npoachers single out an elephant and build its profile over a period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\ninvestigate if it is male or female; if it has calves; its approximate age, and\nhow big its tusks are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once\nsatisfied that it is a good target, they estimate how much poison can kill it.\nThat poison is meticulously prepared then applied on arrowheads that are shot\ninto the jumbo\u2019s body at the opportune time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the\npoachers wait for eight to 12 hours for the poison to take effect, tracking the\nsubdued beast as it wages its last battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loud\ntrumpeting will tell them that the elephant is on its last minutes and they\nwill pounce, hiving off the tusks before rangers rush to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine being allowed to film all that, and to even interview the poachers on their motivations for the activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/lifestyle\/Living-with-poachers--experiences-of-a-filmmaker\/1214-5385822-khgtx1\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation The poachers single out an elephant and build its profile over a period of time. They investigate if it is male or female; if it has calves;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7174,"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-7173","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\/7173","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=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}