{"id":189975,"date":"2025-01-29T16:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-expanding-cameroons-successful-green-militarisation-strategy-to-protect-elephants\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:25:42","slug":"cameroon-expanding-cameroons-successful-green-militarisation-strategy-to-protect-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-expanding-cameroons-successful-green-militarisation-strategy-to-protect-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Expanding Cameroon&#8217;s Successful Green Militarisation Strategy to Protect Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The global demand for ivory is driving heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan into Cameroon&#8217;s Bouba Ndjida National Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Poaching threatens the survival of savanna elephants in Central Africa. Over the past two decades, the Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants programme has <a href=\"https:\/\/cites.org\/sites\/default\/files\/MIKE\/data\/cites-mike_Continental_and_subregional_PIKE_estimate_for_Africa_2023-07-28.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recorded<\/a> 3 004 elephants illegally killed in this region. In April 2023, several elephants were killed in Chad&#8217;s Beinamar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2023\/04\/12\/five-elephants-shot-in-chad-fears-of-renewed-poaching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">area<\/a>, close to the Cameroon border, sparking concerns about a potential resurgence of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501290369.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global demand for ivory is driving heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan into Cameroon&#8217;s Bouba Ndjida National Park. Poaching threatens the survival of savanna elephants in Central Africa. Over the past two decades, the Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants programme has recorded 3 004 elephants illegally killed in this region. In April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189976,"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":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,4331,3496,15229,12626,19719,257,6202,254,6986,6248],"class_list":["post-189975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-elephants","tag-expanding","tag-green","tag-militarisation","tag-news","tag-protect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy","tag-successful"],"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\/189975","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}