{"id":9069,"date":"2012-04-17T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9069"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:56:51","slug":"wilderness-safaris-malawi-launches-rhino-tracking-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/17\/wilderness-safaris-malawi-launches-rhino-tracking-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness Safaris Malawi launches rhino tracking experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div id=\"attachment_9070\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/liwonde-national-park.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/liwonde-national-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"liwonde-national-park\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9070\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracking Rhino in Liwonde | Photo from http:\/\/mabvutojobani.wordpress.com<\/p><\/div>Wilderness Safaris Malawi, in conjunction with Malawi\u2019s Department of National Parks and Wildlife and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, has launched the Rhino Tracking Experience.<\/p>\n<p>Guests of Mvuu Camp and Mvuu Lodge in Liwonde National Park are taken on a three-hour guided walk into rhino territory, conducted by armed Rhino Protection Team scouts \u2013 who have been assigned to protect the Black rhino in Liwonde \u2013 and Wilderness Safaris guides.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, guests have the unique opportunity of tracking Black rhino and seeing them on foot while also getting involved in the practicalities of monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>The experience is limited to two guests of 18 years and above, and 90% of the activity fee will be allocated to the rhino conservation programme.<\/p>\n<p>Wilderness Safaris Malawi Managing Director, Chris Badger, said: \u201cThe continued threat of poaching remains very real and this new activity will raise funds and awareness, which we hope will contribute to the long-term survival and sustainability of Malawi\u2019s Black rhino population.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilderness Safaris Malawi, in conjunction with Malawi\u2019s Department of National Parks and Wildlife and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,251],"tags":[2088,2089,2090],"class_list":["post-9069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-tourism","tag-liwonde","tag-park","tag-wilderness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}