{"id":13803,"date":"2012-08-23T03:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/zimbabwe-to-ask-permission-to-sell-ivory-stocks\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T03:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:05:48","slug":"zimbabwe-to-ask-permission-to-sell-ivory-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/zimbabwe-to-ask-permission-to-sell-ivory-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe to ask permission to sell ivory stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Zimbabwe has one of Africa&#8217;s largest elephant populations<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Deadline to request sale in October<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By MacDonald Dzirutwe<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HARARE, Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has accumulated 50<br \/>\ntonnes of ivory and will ask the international body regulating<br \/>\nits trade for permission to auction its stocks to fund<br \/>\nconservation of the animals, the head of the country&#8217;s wildlife<br \/>\nagency said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ivory has been confiscated from poachers or recovered as<br \/>\na result of natural deaths or government-sanctioned elephant<br \/>\nculls, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe says it needs to raise extra funds to deal with its<br \/>\nburgeoning elephant population, which at about 100,000 is one of<br \/>\nthe largest in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Adult elephants consume about 100 to 300 kgs (220 to 660<br \/>\npounds) of food a day, studies have shown, and officials say<br \/>\ntheir growing numbers are straining the impoverished country&#8217;s<br \/>\nresources and posing a threat to plant life.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some $30 million is required each year for conservation of<br \/>\nthe animals and anti-poaching in Zimbabwe, but Vitalis Chadenga,<br \/>\ndirector-general of the Parks and Wildlife Management Authority,<br \/>\ntold Reuters the current budget was &#8220;very far from there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a point where our elephant population can get so<br \/>\nmuch to a point where they self destruct and this is happening<br \/>\nin some of the parks,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Zimbabwe has one of Africa&#8217;s largest elephant populations * Deadline to request sale in October By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE, Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has accumulated 50 tonnes of ivory and will ask the international body regulating its trade for permission to auction its stocks to fund conservation of the animals, the head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}