{"id":34765,"date":"2021-02-13T21:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=34765"},"modified":"2021-02-13T17:53:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T15:53:59","slug":"elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents","title":{"rendered":"Elephants Terrorize Beitbridge Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Elephants are reportedly terrorizing residents of Beitbridge as they are reportedly extensively destroying crops various sources have confirmed, Newsday reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to Beitbridge East legislator Albert Nguluvhe, the jumbos and their activities in the region are threatening the area\u2019s number harvest:<\/p>\n<p>To tell you the truth, it is going to affect the good harvests we were expecting this season. I think it is high time a permanent solution is found<\/p>\n<p>Why not push them back to the national game parks like Gonarazhou? These elephants don\u2019t add any value to the people in my constituency. No hunters or tourists come to watch them. Instead they have brought destruction and fear to the people.<\/p>\n<p>A district development committee said if the jumbos are not stopped they will totally wipe out residents and villager\u2019s crops:<\/p>\n<p>There are several areas where the presence of these animals has been reported. They will completely destroy crops.<\/p>\n<p>Beitbridge was expecting a bumper harvest due to the rains received this year. Meanwhile, in the Lesanth area villagers are complaining about lions that are killing their livestock.<\/p>\n<p>More: Newsday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Elephants are reportedly terrorizing residents of Beitbridge as they are reportedly extensively destroying crops various sources have confirmed, Newsday reports. According to Beitbridge East legislator Albert Nguluvhe, the jumbos and their activities in the region are threatening the area\u2019s number harvest: To tell you the truth, it is going to affect the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,3077,1001,19],"class_list":["post-34765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-albert-ngulube","tag-elephants","tag-zimbabwe"],"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>Elephants Terrorize Beitbridge Residents - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Elephants are reportedly terrorizing residents of Beitbridge as they are reportedly extensively destroying crops various ...\" \/>\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\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elephants Terrorize Beitbridge Residents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elephants are reportedly terrorizing residents of Beitbridge as they are reportedly extensively destroying crops various ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-13T19:36:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/img-6027f5f70f14a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Elephants Terrorize Beitbridge Residents\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-13T19:36:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/img-6027f5f70f14a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"Albert Ngulube\",\"elephants\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/elephants-terrorize-beitbridge-residents\",\"name\":\"Elephants Terrorize Beitbridge Residents - 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