{"id":205892,"date":"2019-05-27T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/car\/fight-rhino-poaching-one-million-kilometers-time\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:56:55","slug":"fight-rhino-poaching-one-million-kilometers-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/motoring\/2019\/05\/27\/fight-rhino-poaching-one-million-kilometers-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight against rhino poaching, one million kilometers at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of recent statistics indicating the dire situation, Volkswagen has renewed its sponsorship and support to the Wildlife Foundation Africa. The Forever Wild Initiative with the help of Volkswagen Amarok vehicles provides on-the-ground protection of rhino populations, rhino and wildlife crime syndicate investigation support, rhino DNA collection and supporting of K9 units.<\/p>\n<p>All of the aforementioned takes place in South Africa\u2019s rhino population hot spots in Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mpumalanga, North West, Eastern Cape and the Western Cape.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u2018\u2018We are proud that for the past eight years, the Amaroks have driven more than one million kilometres protecting South Africa\u2019s rhino population and are proud to continue supporting the important cause,\u201c &#8211; Andile Dlamini, Head of Volkswagen Group South Africa Communications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='6be105e472841e1b5c10c9508ccb86fe'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2011 Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles have been providing support to the Wildlife Foundation Africa in the fight against rhino poaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8257,"featured_media":205893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Autodealer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Motoring","SubCategory":"Bikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}