{"id":243004,"date":"2026-09-02T20:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-counts-cost-of-wildfires-as-communities-urged-to-fight-back\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:46:30","slug":"zimbabwe-counts-cost-of-wildfires-as-communities-urged-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-counts-cost-of-wildfires-as-communities-urged-to-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Counts Cost of Wildfires As Communities Urged to Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Local communities have been urged to work with authorities and other stakeholders to prevent veldfires as the country battles an increasing threat from climate change and human activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) says thousands of hectares of land have already been destroyed by fires with property, infrastructure and livelihoods also at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Speaking at a veldfire management media briefing in Harare, EMA Environmental Education and Publicity Manager Amkela Sidange said preventing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609020633.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local communities have been urged to work with authorities and other stakeholders to prevent veldfires as the country battles an increasing threat from climate change and human activity. The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) says thousands of hectares of land have already been destroyed by fires with property, infrastructure and livelihoods also at risk. Speaking at [&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":[248],"tags":[258,256,7103,6629,14176,4345,257,254,6206,30664,4686,421],"class_list":["post-243004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-communities","tag-cost","tag-counts","tag-fight","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged","tag-wildfires","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243004","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=243004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243004\/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=243004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}