{"id":179886,"date":"2024-09-04T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-conservationists-threaten-namibia-with-legal-action-over-wildlife-cull\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:04:48","slug":"namibia-conservationists-threaten-namibia-with-legal-action-over-wildlife-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-conservationists-threaten-namibia-with-legal-action-over-wildlife-cull\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Conservationists Threaten Namibia With Legal Action Over Wildlife Cull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Windhoek, Namibia \u2014 Wildlife conservationists, scientists and researchers in Namibia and Southern Africa have warned of impending legal action to halt the culling of wildlife as a &#8220;mitigation strategy&#8221; to address hunger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Hunger affects about 700,000 people in Namibia, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization &#8212; especially in rural Namibia &#8212; and it has worsened because of the drought facing the southern African region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Officials there have started a wildlife cull &#8212; a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409040013.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>Windhoek, Namibia \u2014 Wildlife conservationists, scientists and researchers in Namibia and Southern Africa have warned of impending legal action to halt the culling of wildlife as a &#8220;mitigation strategy&#8221; to address hunger. Hunger affects about 700,000 people in Namibia, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization &#8212; especially in rural Namibia &#8212; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651659:1710badcd07de3dd0c3c406b182dc193:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[6394,258,256,22672,21520,6393,4706,724,257,254,7002,6327],"class_list":["post-179886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conservationists","tag-cull","tag-legal","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threaten","tag-wildlife"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651659:1710badcd07de3dd0c3c406b182dc193:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179886","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=179886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}