{"id":182257,"date":"2024-10-10T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-environment-ministry-to-tighten-white-rhino-export-laws-after-42-live-animals-are-sold-to-u-s\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:30:11","slug":"namibia-environment-ministry-to-tighten-white-rhino-export-laws-after-42-live-animals-are-sold-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-environment-ministry-to-tighten-white-rhino-export-laws-after-42-live-animals-are-sold-to-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Environment Ministry to Tighten White Rhino Export Laws After 42 Live Animals Are Sold to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism has announced it would amend the law on selling white rhinos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">This comes as the ministry recently authorised a private farmer to sell 42 live white rhinos to the United States (US).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda has confirmed that the rhinos were not owned by the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;We wish to point out that the law makes provision for any private person to buy and sell white rhinos, provided it&#8217;s in line with the law,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Muyunda says black&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410100257.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>The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism has announced it would amend the law on selling white rhinos. This comes as the ministry recently authorised a private farmer to sell 42 live white rhinos to the United States (US). Ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda has confirmed that the rhinos were not owned by the government. &#8220;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,11065,8503,10346,5040,9191,6857,4706,724,257,4114,6929,254,24047,2282,5079],"class_list":["post-182257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-animals","tag-environment","tag-export","tag-laws","tag-live","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rhino","tag-sold","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tighten","tag-u-s","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182257","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=182257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}