{"id":78518,"date":"2024-10-10T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/environment-ministry-to-tighten-white-rhino-export-laws-after-42-live-animals-are-sold-to-us"},"modified":"2024-10-10T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:40:00","slug":"environment-ministry-to-tighten-white-rhino-export-laws-after-42-live-animals-are-sold-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/environment-ministry-to-tighten-white-rhino-export-laws-after-42-live-animals-are-sold-to-us","title":{"rendered":"Environment ministry to tighten white rhino export laws after 42 live animals are sold to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism has announced it would amend the law on selling white rhinos.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This comes as the ministry recently authorised a private farmer to sell 42 live white rhinos to the United States (US).<\/p>\n<p>Ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda has confirmed that the rhinos were not owned by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to point out that the law makes provision for any private person to buy and sell white rhinos, provided it\u2019s in line with the law,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Muyunda says black rhinos are, however, strictly owned by the Namibian government.<\/p>\n<p>He says the ministry is concerned over the keen interest in sending white rhinos to the US for breeding purposes.<\/p>\n<p>He has expressed concern over the import of live white rhinos from South Africa to Namibia, with the sole purpose of exporting them to the US.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry sees no conservation value in exporting live white rhinos outside their natural habitat, and adds if they are not well managed, this could be detrimental to the conservation of the species.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry says it will change laws \u201cto better regulate the export of live white rhinoceros outside the natural range in future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Muyunda, however, reiterated that the export of the rhinos was authorised, saying the ministry has to clarify the \u201cmisconceptions that may have been created\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism has announced it would amend the law on selling white rhinos. This comes as the ministry recently authorised a private farmer to sell 42 live white rhinos to the United States (US). Ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda has confirmed that the rhinos were not owned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":78517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-78518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Environment ministry to tighten white rhino export laws after 42 live animals are sold to US - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/environment-ministry-to-tighten-white-rhino-export-laws-after-42-live-animals-are-sold-to-us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Environment ministry to tighten white rhino export laws after 42 live animals are sold to US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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