{"id":180573,"date":"2024-09-14T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mass-poisoning-of-fish-in-niassa-lake\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T14:37:22","slug":"mozambique-mass-poisoning-of-fish-in-niassa-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mass-poisoning-of-fish-in-niassa-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Mass Poisoning of Fish in Niassa Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Maputo \u2014 Unknown criminals, believed to be poachers, have poisoned a lake in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa, resulting in the deaths of thousands of fish, according to a report on the independent television station STV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">There is a danger that animals who drink from the lake may also be poisoned. Indeed, this may be the poachers&#8217; intention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The lake is in a conservation area known as the Marangira Game Reserve. This borders on the Niassa Special Reserve, which is the largest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409120051.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Unknown criminals, believed to be poachers, have poisoned a lake in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa, resulting in the deaths of thousands of fish, according to a report on the independent television station STV. There is a danger that animals who drink from the lake may also be poisoned. Indeed, this may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00640814:d6df617b3bb21cfe7416eca40bb86ae6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,8555,6920,7883,4704,682,257,4173,13125,254],"class_list":["post-180573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fish","tag-lake","tag-mass","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-niassa","tag-poisoning","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00640814:d6df617b3bb21cfe7416eca40bb86ae6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180573","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=180573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}