{"id":176422,"date":"2024-07-12T13:54:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T11:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-to-lose-u-s-147-million-over-uks-anti-trophy-hunting-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T11:54:24","slug":"namibia-to-lose-u-s-147-million-over-uks-anti-trophy-hunting-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-to-lose-u-s-147-million-over-uks-anti-trophy-hunting-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia to Lose U.S.$14,7 Million Over UK&#8217;s Anti-Trophy Hunting Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>Namibia stands to lose more than N$260 million annually in potential revenue from the hunting industry due to the decision by the United Kingdom&#8217;s ruling Labour Party to implement an anti-trophy hunting bill.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In 2022 minister of environment, forestry and tourism Pohamba Shifeta said the banning of hunting trophy imports by the United Kingdom (UK), Belgium and Finland may have negative consequences for Namibia and its wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;We understand their intention is to protect animal species hunted in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407100049.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia stands to lose more than N$260 million annually in potential revenue from the hunting industry due to the decision by the United Kingdom&#8217;s ruling Labour Party to implement an anti-trophy hunting bill. In 2022 minister of environment, forestry and tourism Pohamba Shifeta said the banning of hunting trophy imports by the United Kingdom (UK), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581253:305cc753b474c7fdc858fcc6839ccb0a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,49020,7292,9642,9569,5118,4706,724,257,254,49019,24707],"class_list":["post-176422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antitrophy","tag-bill","tag-hunting","tag-lose","tag-million","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-147","tag-uks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581253:305cc753b474c7fdc858fcc6839ccb0a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}