{"id":616768,"date":"2026-09-30T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616768\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:52:10","slug":"botswana-condemned-for-slaughtering-23-elephants-for-independence-celebrations-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616768\/","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\/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<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxPQ0xybU82dFpMNjNIYjNaNFZWRTJCQjJGU0M1Z1A3Y3ZBcGxIRUZrc3hlOVlEQndNSVR1WWQ3QWZfdXlvdU9JQkxLeFBmV19qVDRacHBnYkU0VHpPdlM2Q3RpempCMG92bUEwMFdhRnpWdnFnZ1JabkxvcWdISmoyVURJRy0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why Botswana Is Right And Wrong About Using Elephants For Independence Day<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u0418\u0424\u0417 \u0420\u0410\u041d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Botswana condemned for slaughtering 23 elephants for independence celebrations&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCElephants killed in Botswana: Animal rights activists dey para say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-616768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}