{"id":48647,"date":"2019-08-08T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T11:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/komani-karoo\/creating-vulture-safe-zones-in-the-karoo-20190807\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:19:20","slug":"creating-vulture-safe-zones-in-the-karoo-20190807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/komani-karoo\/creating-vulture-safe-zones-in-the-karoo-20190807\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating vulture safe zones in the Karoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A NEW partnership between South African National Parks (SANParks), the Mountain Zebra Camdeboo Protected Environment (MZCPE), Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), the SANParks honorary rangers and Birdlife SA will see the creation of a project to create vulture safe zones to hopefully attract vultures back to the Central Karoo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"4a4c2066\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9210\/25e164f56f414221a16524dba1e62a50.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9210\/96faebe6065c49c5a7bd2464c5cd582c.jpg\" title=\"Creating vulture safe zones in the Karoo.       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