{"id":200628,"date":"2025-06-21T13:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-protecting-crops-and-preserving-wildlife-poly-wire-fencing-in-kasungu-national-park\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:27:59","slug":"malawi-protecting-crops-and-preserving-wildlife-poly-wire-fencing-in-kasungu-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-protecting-crops-and-preserving-wildlife-poly-wire-fencing-in-kasungu-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Protecting Crops and Preserving Wildlife &#8211; Poly Wire Fencing in Kasungu National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Communities living near Kasungu National Park are seeing the benefits of ongoing conservation work piloted by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) Malawi and Zambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">These efforts are not only mitigating human-wildlife conflict and promoting coexistence but also strengthening food security and resilience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">These initiatives form part of 2022 translocation of nearly 700 animals, including 263 elephants from Liwonde National Park to Kasungu, a major conservation effort led by Malawi&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200291.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities living near Kasungu National Park are seeing the benefits of ongoing conservation work piloted by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) Malawi and Zambia. These efforts are not only mitigating human-wildlife conflict and promoting coexistence but also strengthening food security and resilience. These initiatives form part of 2022 translocation of nearly 700 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200629,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,7856,19422,51693,5028,6687,257,7191,40822,10896,8518,254,6327,30855,881],"class_list":["post-200628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crops","tag-fencing","tag-kasungu","tag-malawi","tag-national","tag-news","tag-park","tag-poly","tag-preserving","tag-protecting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wildlife","tag-wire","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/200628","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=200628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}