{"id":210980,"date":"2025-10-23T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-strategy-addresses-human-wildlife-conflict\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:02:05","slug":"botswana-strategy-addresses-human-wildlife-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-strategy-addresses-human-wildlife-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Strategy Addresses Human &#8211; Wildlife Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Gaborone \u2014 The Minister of Environment and Tourism, Mr Wynter Mmolotsi says addressing human-wildlife conflict is among priority areas of the National Development Plan (NDP) 12 strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He acknowledged that human-wildlife conflict was one of the major impediments of economic growth and food security within the rural communities, with an average of over 9 000 incidents recorded annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\">Mr Mmolotsi said the government was committed to reducing these incidents by 10 per cent annually during the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230419.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>Gaborone \u2014 The Minister of Environment and Tourism, Mr Wynter Mmolotsi says addressing human-wildlife conflict is among priority areas of the National Development Plan (NDP) 12 strategy. He acknowledged that human-wildlife conflict was one of the major impediments of economic growth and food security within the rural communities, with an average of over 9 000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210981,"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":[6983,258,256,4718,2462,2444,3575,257,254,6986,6327],"class_list":["post-210980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-addresses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-conflict","tag-human","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy","tag-wildlife"],"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\/210980","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=210980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}