{"id":7443,"date":"2020-01-14T08:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T05:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"drought-ignites-human-wildlife-conflict-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/14\/drought-ignites-human-wildlife-conflict-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Ignites Human-Wildlife Conflict In Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>By AFP<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hwange<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwean villager Dumisani Khumalo appeared to be in pain as he walked gingerly towards a chair under the shade of a tree near his one-room brick shack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 45-year-old was attacked by a buffalo days earlier, and he was lucky to be on his feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wild animals in Zimbabwe were responsible for the deaths of at least 36 people in 2019, up from 20 in the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I thank God that I survived the attack,&#8221; said Khumalo with a laugh, making light of the fact that the buffalo almost ripped off his genitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities recorded 311 animal attacks on people last year, up from 195 in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attacks have been blamed on a devastating drought in Zimbabwe which has seen hungry animals breaking out of game reserves, raiding human settlements in search of food and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The cases include attacks on humans, their livestock and crops,&#8221; said national parks spokesman Tinashe Farawo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said elephants caused most fatalities, while hippos, buffalos, lions, hyenas and crocodile also contributed to the toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hwange National Park, which is half the size of Belgium, is Zimbabwe&#8217;s largest game park and is situated next to the famed Victoria Falls. The park is not fenced off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Animals breach the buffer and &#8220;cross over to look for water and food as there is little or none left in the forest area,&#8221; Farawo said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Drought-ignites-human-wildlife-conflict-in-Zimbabwe\/1066-5414138-uwggxh\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Hwange Zimbabwean villager Dumisani Khumalo appeared to be in pain as he walked gingerly towards a chair under the shade of a tree near his one-room brick shack.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7444,"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-7443","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\/7443","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=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}