{"id":268509,"date":"2019-06-05T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=268509"},"modified":"2019-06-05T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:21:07","slug":"elephant-kills-cow-at-omborondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=268509","title":{"rendered":"Elephant kills cow at Omborondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marthina Mutanga<\/p>\n<p>HUMAN wild life conflict at the Daures constituency appears to be going from bad to worse following another report that an elephants on Friday killed a cow and injured another in Omborondo near Omatjete.<\/p>\n<p>Fabianus Hivirikee Uaseuapuani, the chairperson of the Zeraeua Traditional Authority, said the a herd of elephants traveled to the water tank in the hopes of finding water, but after the herd realised that the tank was empty, one of the elephants allegedly become violent, moved to the kraal and killed one cow while injuring another.<\/p>\n<table>\n<caption>WRECKING HAVOC: Some of the damage caused by the elephants in the area. Photos: contributed<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/e98c0ab7-ff9a-4d26-9723-024d3d402201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-268524\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/e98c0ab7-ff9a-4d26-9723-024d3d402201-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/e9ac63b0-89b3-4736-856b-74403c3dca2c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-268523\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/e9ac63b0-89b3-4736-856b-74403c3dca2c-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/63e9f151-533e-464a-8f9b-bbf8c49a6a75.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-268522\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/63e9f151-533e-464a-8f9b-bbf8c49a6a75-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/4a83615d-d644-44d1-8bd8-f4ebb92336c0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-268521\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/4a83615d-d644-44d1-8bd8-f4ebb92336c0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Uaseuapuani added that the Omatjete community is now threatening to kill the elephants in the area if government does not intervene and find a permanent solution to the persisting conflict between human and wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the ministry of environment still has not respond to their pleas and that the community is slowly becoming fed-up as their livelihood is being threatened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to get rid of these elephants as our communal land is drought-stricken and is too small,\u201d Uaseuapaunai noted, adding that the number of elephants in the area is increasing.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the water points erected for the people and the elephants are also not enough.<\/p>\n<p>Uaseuapaunai also said that although the ministry had installed solar pumps at different water points to limit the need for people to go to the water points, thereby running the risk of confronting elephants, the intervention was causing other problems.<\/p>\n<p>The elephants are allegedly now entering communal areas on a weekly basis, breaking water infrastructures, homesteads and threatening human life.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to get comments from the environment ministry proved futile as the spokesperson, Romeo Muyunda did not return phone calls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265868\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Paws-Claws728x180px.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marthina Mutanga HUMAN wild life conflict at the Daures constituency appears to be going from bad to worse following another report that an elephants on Friday killed a cow and injured another in Omborondo near Omatjete. Fabianus Hivirikee Uaseuapuani, the chairperson of the Zeraeua Traditional Authority, said the a herd of elephants traveled to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":268524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elephant kills cow at Omborondo - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HUMAN wild life conflict at the Daures constituency appears to be going from bad to worse following another report that an elephants on Friday killed a cow and injured another in Omborondo near Omatjete.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=268509\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elephant kills cow at Omborondo - 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