{"id":16189,"date":"2014-05-13T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T08:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16189"},"modified":"2014-05-13T08:19:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T08:19:46","slug":"zimbabwe-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/zimbabwe-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finality of outstanding<\/p>\n<p>conservation<\/p>\n<p>one women leaves<\/p>\n<p>another women comes<\/p>\n<p>can you feel the heart break<\/p>\n<p>can you hear it<\/p>\n<p>its all there in the beating of those drums<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Presidential herds are<\/p>\n<p>witnessing<\/p>\n<p>the rumblings of hunters<\/p>\n<p>and we may<\/p>\n<p>see the influx of the trophy people<\/p>\n<p>who want to come and blow<\/p>\n<p>wild life away<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The elephants are cringing<\/p>\n<p>they must realize<\/p>\n<p>their saviour has been forced out<\/p>\n<p>and that they<\/p>\n<p>are now the targets<\/p>\n<p>for the rabid hunters<\/p>\n<p>Gwango is the new name<\/p>\n<p>so they say<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a conservancy already<\/p>\n<p>shows its muscles<\/p>\n<p>intimidating locals<\/p>\n<p>thereabouts<\/p>\n<p>the henchmen clearly<\/p>\n<p>frightening the people<\/p>\n<p>and setting up<\/p>\n<p>the planning for these routs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The elephants must really<\/p>\n<p>be beside themselves<\/p>\n<p>knowing that the end is near and they<\/p>\n<p>will all be sitting targets<\/p>\n<p>for the hunters<\/p>\n<p>for that is what they do<\/p>\n<p>when they can pay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>sustainable it never is<\/p>\n<p>sustainable<\/p>\n<p>its a quick buck<\/p>\n<p>and that&#8217;s about it all<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe really \u00a0is a poaching hot spot<\/p>\n<p>half the world knows that<\/p>\n<p>so for a short while<\/p>\n<p>they will have a ball<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>killing selling ivory<\/p>\n<p>and hoping<\/p>\n<p>the world just closes one eye<\/p>\n<p>and forgets<\/p>\n<p>this is what the world does<\/p>\n<p>it soon becomes stale news<\/p>\n<p>and the wild life<\/p>\n<p>yea of course<\/p>\n<p>they pay the debts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finality of outstanding conservation one women leaves another women comes can you feel the heart break can you hear it its all there in the beating of those drums Zimbabwe&#8217;s Presidential herds are witnessing the rumblings of hunters and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/zimbabwe-elephants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16194,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions\/16194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}