{"id":215471,"date":"2025-12-02T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-the-last-great-bulls-inside-botswanas-silent-struggle-over-its-elephants\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:37:58","slug":"africa-the-last-great-bulls-inside-botswanas-silent-struggle-over-its-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-the-last-great-bulls-inside-botswanas-silent-struggle-over-its-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: The Last Great Bulls &#8211; Inside Botswana&#8217;s Silent Struggle Over Its Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">Cape Town \u2014 <strong> When Dr Mike Chase banks the small survey plane over northern Botswana\u2019s mopane woodlands, he can see the country\u2019s wildlife story written in the dust below. Carcasses \u2014 some months old, others more recent \u2014 lie scattered along ancient elephant paths, mute evidence of drought, hunting and poaching. Farther ahead, the shadows of living elephants stretch across the floodplains of the Chobe. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"89\">But the aerial view tells a different story \u2014 one that challenges years of political&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020122.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>Cape Town \u2014 When Dr Mike Chase banks the small survey plane over northern Botswana\u2019s mopane woodlands, he can see the country\u2019s wildlife story written in the dust below. Carcasses \u2014 some months old, others more recent \u2014 lie scattered along ancient elephant paths, mute evidence of drought, hunting and poaching. Farther ahead, the shadows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215472,"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":[258,256,2462,10477,46161,3496,8273,257,7616,254,11137],"class_list":["post-215471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-bulls","tag-elephants","tag-great","tag-news","tag-silent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struggle"],"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\/215471","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=215471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}