{"id":200428,"date":"2025-06-19T01:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/south-africa-zimbabwe-south-africa-botswana-sign-treaty-to-boost-cross-border-conservation-livelihoods\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T01:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:20:01","slug":"south-africa-zimbabwe-south-africa-botswana-sign-treaty-to-boost-cross-border-conservation-livelihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/south-africa-zimbabwe-south-africa-botswana-sign-treaty-to-boost-cross-border-conservation-livelihoods\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana Sign Treaty to Boost Cross-Border Conservation, Livelihoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">BOTSWANA, South Africa, and Zimbabwe have signed a treaty to establish the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area, aiming at promoting cross-border environmental conservation, cultural heritage protection, and sustainable socio-economic development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The countries will work together to protect nature and cultural heritage in the Greater Mapungubwe area, while also improving people&#8217;s lives through conservation and sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Speaking during a post-cabinet media briefing on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506180018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOTSWANA, South Africa, and Zimbabwe have signed a treaty to establish the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area, aiming at promoting cross-border environmental conservation, cultural heritage protection, and sustainable socio-economic development. The countries will work together to protect nature and cultural heritage in the Greater Mapungubwe area, while also improving people&#8217;s lives through conservation and sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,6557,4718,2462,9475,6503,11463,257,4368,5069,254,6134,4686],"class_list":["post-200428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-conservation","tag-crossborder","tag-livelihoods","tag-news","tag-sign","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treaty","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/200428","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=200428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}