{"id":231160,"date":"2026-04-23T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-welcomes-new-sadc-wetland-sinitiative\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:41:18","slug":"southern-africa-namibia-welcomes-new-sadc-wetland-sinitiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-welcomes-new-sadc-wetland-sinitiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia Welcomes New SADC Wetland Sinitiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>An initiative to promote the use and protection of wetlands in 12 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries has been widely welcomed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Southern Africa Regional Ramsar Initiative (Sarri) also aims to promote regional cooperation and to ensure that communities benefit from the sustainable and wise use of natural resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">A number of Namibians involved in wildlife conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources have welcomed the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604230402.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initiative to promote the use and protection of wetlands in 12 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries has been widely welcomed. The Southern Africa Regional Ramsar Initiative (Sarri) also aims to promote regional cooperation and to ensure that communities benefit from the sustainable and wise use of natural resources. A number of Namibians involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231161,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,4706,724,257,1412,54247,254,7153,6132,33631],"class_list":["post-231160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-sadc","tag-sinitiative","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-welcomes","tag-wetland"],"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\/231160","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=231160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}