{"id":911545,"date":"2026-09-30T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911545\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T23:10:08","slug":"botswana-condemned-for-slaughtering-23-elephants-for-independence-celebrations-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911545\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana condemned for slaughtering 23 elephants for independence celebrations &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiW0FVX3lxTE11TTZnYjVhbDZrc29SODh5YU5Ma05rSmx6azE1UkNBMDhsOTlYOGxvb1hUc0dkWVVjRFlUamJxMlI0X0pXVHpyZ01hQWRHdUpkeFhjbm4zNU5waUE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Botswana condemned for slaughtering 23 elephants for independence celebrations<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMizwFBVV95cUxQUmlMb0hmT1VFdTBtdzRQcFVlVl9xRzhwcWZfa0Vtb0ZnVXhFbG5zYWZNSVhMcE10MHdmRjRRejFfcUM3MHNoTEhyVUVvU2hZVmk0ZlItUUJ5dTVBUXF2T3dHcGJiYlYwRkNZT2ZHZFlZZjk3azltZ1ktdzRiZFFYUEZHUWx5T3JYcFdRNmV2aVphMENFUEpCSkVHNHFpZUo2a1dKTG5jUm5UcVdYVE1GWE04X0VLLTVPbHlHLTduTklLQ0RJRHFrTEJjemZRdzA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Botswana criticised for slaughtering 23 elephants for 60th Independence Day celebrations<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Eastleigh Voice<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXkFVX3lxTE1FdWNMQVBZZ2loa29PdFZWSlgtSXN4djJCUnktYi1tQ2ZnMGtoTnoxdGxNSE9CZDRBbW1rSi0yTkpEZlMtLWFub2tWenBQY3pVYndPREhrQXE4RDBndWfSAWNBVV95cUxPQ1dIMV8zWlNkbExQanNnTE5ab1pWNnU3aGNKMDNyQnc0N3pZZzZLMjZ0R2JuTXoyc1NSdmM4bTVMYUt4a2kxSWliMkJBOUFucTlWX0ZkcnE3V004OTRTNGZSc0U?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elephants killed in Botswana: Animal rights activists dey para say Southern African kontri kpai 23 elephants for independence celebrations<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Botswana condemned for slaughtering 23 elephants for independence celebrations&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCBotswana criticised for slaughtering 23 elephants for 60th Independence Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-911545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}