{"id":18628,"date":"2013-03-08T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T06:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/gamblers-help-link-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2013-03-08T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T06:43:16","slug":"gamblers-help-link-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gamblers-help-link-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamblers help link wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n        \t\t  \t                March 7 2013 at 06:00pm <br \/>\n                          By Tony Carnie\n\t          <\/p>\n<p class=\"comment_call_to_action\">Comment on this story<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- C-ON-TEXT_CONTENT_START --> <\/p>\n<p>        \t                                <!-- Main Editorial Image --><br \/>\n                    \t\t\t      \t\t\t                                      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/7cabc_2488252120.jpg\" alt=\"iol scitech aug 27 zim wildlife\" title=\"\" class=\"pics\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"captions_credit_article\">AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">The Stellenbosch-based Peace Parks Foundation promotes the removal of national border fences so that animals can migrate freely between newly-established transfrontier conservation areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">\n<p class=\"related_articles\">Related Stories<\/p>\n<ul class=\"menu_tab_lists_related\">\n<li><a class=\"related_articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za:80\/scitech\/science\/environment\/africa-s-elephants-face-alarming-declines-1.1482264\">Africa\u2019s elephants face \u2018alarming declines\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--PSTYLE=WT Web Text--><\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Durban &#8211; Gamblers in Holland and Sweden are helping, indirectly, to link up the divided wildlife areas of southern Africa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">This follows the donation of nearly R30-million to the Stellenbosch-based Peace Parks Foundation, which promotes the removal of national border fences so that animals can migrate freely between newly-established transfrontier conservation areas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The foundation said in a statement that it recently received e1.35 million (R15.9m) from the Dutch Postcode Lottery, which has 2.5 million players. Another e1.18m was received from the Swedish Postcode Lottery.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The lotteries are both part of Novamedia, the world\u2019s third-largest private charity donor after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the US and the UK\u2019s Wellcome Trust. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Since 2002, the Peace Parks Foundation has received almost e16m from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The foundation was established in 1997 by Dr Anton Rupert, Nelson Mandela and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Since then, more than 20 potential \u201cpeace parks\u201d have been identified in southern Africa with the aim of creating permanent links between the sub-continent\u2019s conservation areas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The foundation could not be reached for comment on Wednesday on how the latest funds would be used. &#8211; The Mercury <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\">Hungry for more scitech news? Sign up for our daily newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t  <!-- .aticle_column --><\/p>\n<p><!-- C-ON-TEXT_CONTENT_END --><\/p>\n<p><!--JavaScript Tag \/\/ Tag for network 585: IOL \/\/ Website: IOL Articles \/\/ Page: ROS \/\/ Placement: ROS-MPU-300 x 250 (4015147) \/\/ created at: Aug 23, 2012 4:14:03 PM--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/adserver.adtech.de\/adlink\/3.0\/585\/4015147\/0\/170\/ADTECH;loc=300;key=key1+key2+key3+key4;rdclick=\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/3d6d5_ADTECH%3Bloc%3D300%3Bkey%3Dkey1%2Bkey2%2Bkey3%2Bkey4\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- End of JavaScript Tag --><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"sharinganchor\" id=\"sharinganchor\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t  \t\t <!--  .article_tool\" --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/5128e_sign-up.jpg\" alt=\"sign up\" class=\"images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \t    <!-- Render the Comments --><\/p>\n<p>\t<a name=\"comments_start\" id=\"comments_start\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Comment Guidelines<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Please read our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/comment-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\">comment guidelines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Login and register, if you haven\u2019 t already.<\/li>\n<li>Write your comment in the block below and click (Post As)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Has a comment offended you?<\/strong> Hover your mouse over the comment and wait until a small triangle appears on the right-hand side. Click triangle (<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/d85c0_disqus-triangle.png\" \/>) and select &#8220;Flag as inappropriate&#8221;. Our moderators will take action if need be.\u00a0\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 7 2013 at 06:00pm By Tony Carnie Comment on this story AP The Stellenbosch-based Peace Parks Foundation promotes the removal of national border fences so that animals can migrate freely between newly-established transfrontier conservation areas. Related Stories Africa\u2019s elephants face \u2018alarming declines\u2019 Durban &#8211; Gamblers in Holland and Sweden are helping, indirectly, to link [&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":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-18628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","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\/18628","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=18628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}