{"id":247944,"date":"2019-02-20T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=247944"},"modified":"2019-02-20T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T10:26:12","slug":"attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=247944","title":{"rendered":"Attack leaves survival of desert horses hanging in the balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-247954\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance2.jpg\" alt=\"Attack leaves survival of desert horses hanging in the balance\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance2-765x510.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-247955\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance.jpg\" alt=\"Attack leaves survival of desert horses hanging in the balance\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance.jpg 640w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Attack-leaves-survival-of-desert-horses-hanging-in-the-balance-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Environmental Reporter<\/p>\n<p>YET another attack on a new days old foal born into the pack of world famous Wild Horses of the Namib by a hyena during the last week, leaves the future survival of the desert adapted equines hanging in the balance once again.<br \/>\nThe Minister of Environment and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta, responded to the public outcry recently by issuing a statement in which he said he would personally and urge<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ntly co-ordinate the relocation of the hyenas.<br \/>\nMinister Shifeta confirmed that he got personally involved and that he deployed a helicopter in search of the hyena-pack that killed the last remaining foal a few weeks ago. The birth of five foals during the past few months captivated the imagination of the world.<br \/>\nThe diminishing herd is constantly threatened by extinction first by successive droughts and by the roaming hyenas that found the foals and weakened adult horses to be easy prey.<br \/>\nAfter alarm bells were sounded when hyenas had caught four foals and hopes were high that the fifth might have survived, the shattering news of the last foal being brought down by the hyenas, emerged.<br \/>\nAt the time Minister Shifeta said the good news is that a small number of mares are pregnant. One of the pregnant mares indeed gave birth to a foal about a week ago and during the last two or three days it unfortunately became the victim of the marauding hyenas once again.<br \/>\nChristine Wulff-Swiegers one of the people who monitors the wild horses and their survival said the newest foal was severely injured during the attack and that hopes are low that it would survive.<br \/>\n\u201cThe little foal is still alive but it has bad wound on its belly where the hyenas bit it. The last time we saw it, it seemed as if the wound was starting to heal but it is still very weak.\u201d<br \/>\nIn a statement the Namibia Wild Horses Foundation said that with the birth of every foal, there has been the hope that the Namib Desert horse population will survive.<br \/>\n\u201cIf the predation however continues Namibia\u2019s wild horse population doesn\u2019t stand a chance. The youngest mare is eight years old now and, in eight more years she will be past breeding age. If that happens the population of the Wild Horses of the Namib is doomed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Reporter YET another attack on a new days old foal born into the pack of world famous Wild Horses of the Namib by a hyena during the last week, leaves the future survival of the desert adapted equines hanging in the balance once again. 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