{"id":20381,"date":"2020-12-22T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p091ml3m"},"modified":"2020-12-22T03:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:01:00","slug":"warrior-elephant-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/22\/warrior-elephant-guardians\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrior elephant guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"In a remote part of Northern Kenya, former Samburu warriors have become elephant keepers, rescuing and raising baby elephants in what\u2019s thought to be Africa\u2019s first community owned and run elephant sanctuary. At Reteti Elephant Sanctuary they rescue baby elephants that have been injured, orphaned or abandoned. They look after them, rehabilitate them and release them back to the wild. It is transforming the way local communities relate to elephants, and is a catalyst for peace, bringing tribes together from all over Northern Kenya, that normally fight over land and resources.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p091ml3m\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remote part of Northern Kenya, former Samburu warriors have become elephant keepers, rescuing and raising baby elephants in what\u2019s thought to be Africa\u2019s first community owned and run elephant sanctuary. At Reteti Elephant Sanctuary they rescue ba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598450,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381\/revisions\/1598450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}