{"id":211065,"date":"2025-10-24T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-veld-fires-ravage-50000-hectares\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:03:00","slug":"botswana-veld-fires-ravage-50000-hectares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-veld-fires-ravage-50000-hectares\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Veld Fires Ravage 50000 Hectares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Pandamatenga \u2014 Around 50,000 hectares of land in the CH9, CH8, and CH12 controlled hunting areas have been burnt by recent veldt fires that occured near Pandamatenga in the Chobe District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Regional Manager for the Department of Forestry and Range Resources(DFRR) in Chobe, Mr Keletso Seabo has explained that the fire erupted when a local farmer burned debris at his farm in Pandamatenga on October 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;The fire started in CH12 and CH8 and spread quickly because of dense vegetation and strong&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230418.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>Pandamatenga \u2014 Around 50,000 hectares of land in the CH9, CH8, and CH12 controlled hunting areas have been burnt by recent veldt fires that occured near Pandamatenga in the Chobe District. Regional Manager for the Department of Forestry and Range Resources(DFRR) in Chobe, Mr Keletso Seabo has explained that the fire erupted when a local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211066,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,8745,14642,257,30005,254,39978],"class_list":["post-211065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-fires","tag-hectares","tag-news","tag-ravage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-veld"],"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\/211065","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=211065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}