{"id":7208,"date":"2013-07-15T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2013-07-15T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:45:27","slug":"fire-in-kruger-park-not-controlled-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7208","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Kruger Park not controlled burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/knpfire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7209\" alt=\"knpfire\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/knpfire.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>A blaze that led to the death of an elephant in the Kruger National Park was not a controlled fire, SA National Parks said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was responding to rumours about the fire last week on social networking sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This was as a result of a runaway fire that jumped over the border from Mozambique into the KNP,&#8221; said Freek Venter, KNP general manager of conservation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A south-easterly wind created adverse conditions which resulted in a fast-moving fire on the day,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Venter said the smoke from &#8220;this type of fire sometimes overcomes animals and confuses them&#8221;. The elephant sustained serious burns and was put down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;With regards to controlled fires, SANParks has a strict fire danger index guideline, which indicates when it is safe to administer controlled burns and KNP is no exception,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were claims on Facebook and other social platforms that a rhino was also injured in the fire. This could not be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Venter said an investigation was underway. &#8211; SAPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blaze that led to the death of an elephant in the Kruger National Park was not a controlled fire, SA National Parks said on Monday. It was responding to rumours about the fire last week on social networking sites. &#8220;This was as a result of a runaway fire that jumped over the border from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fire in Kruger Park not controlled burning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2065,3939],"class_list":["post-7208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-kruger-national-park","tag-sa-national-parks"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/knpfire.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}