{"id":36677,"date":"2013-09-24T19:06:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=36677"},"modified":"2013-09-24T19:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:06:15","slug":"zimbabwe-poisoned-elephant-death-toll-rises-to-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=36677","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Poisoned Elephant Death Toll Rises to 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/African-elephant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36675\" alt=\"African - elephant\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/African-elephant.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/African-elephant.jpg 630w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/African-elephant-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/African-elephant-472x300.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>Zimbabwean authorities say at least 81 elephants have been killed for their ivory tusks by poachers using cyanide poison in water holes in a vast western national park.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife department officials said industrial cyanide, used in gold mining, was put in the park&#8217;s remote water holes, killing smaller animals drinking there and vultures and other predators feeding on the dead animals.<\/p>\n<p>Nine alleged poachers were arrested after rangers tracked them to a cache of ivory hidden in the park.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s state media reported Tuesday that newly-appointed environment minister Saviour Kasukuwere has vowed harsher jail penalties for poachers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean authorities say at least 81 elephants have been killed for their ivory tusks by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[2132],"class_list":["post-36677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-zimbabwe","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}