{"id":240328,"date":"2026-08-04T19:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-meft-defends-etosha-vehicle-access-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:47:55","slug":"namibia-meft-defends-etosha-vehicle-access-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-meft-defends-etosha-vehicle-access-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Meft Defends Etosha Vehicle Access Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><em>Auleria Wakudumo<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) has defended its decision to restrict empty game-viewing vehicles from entering Etosha National Park, saying the directive is a long-standing management measure aimed at enforcing conservation laws and protecting the integrity of one of Namibia&#8217;s premier tourism destinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The ministry&#8217;s response follows a media statement issued by a group of legally registered Namibian tour operators and professional guides, who claimed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608040283.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Auleria Wakudumo The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) has defended its decision to restrict empty game-viewing vehicles from entering Etosha National Park, saying the directive is a long-standing management measure aimed at enforcing conservation laws and protecting the integrity of one of Namibia&#8217;s premier tourism destinations. The ministry&#8217;s response follows a media statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[6450,258,256,7820,27790,55045,4706,724,257,7293,254,7765],"class_list":["post-240328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defends","tag-etosha","tag-meft","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-restrictions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240328","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=240328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}