{"id":54884,"date":"2024-02-22T14:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=54884"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:38:49","slug":"greenpeace-africa-statement-on-the-docking-of-19-000-cattles-in-the-ai-kuwait-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/54884\/greenpeace-africa-statement-on-the-docking-of-19-000-cattles-in-the-ai-kuwait-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Africa Statement\u00a0 on the docking of 19 000 cattle in the AI Kuwait in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Cape Town, 22nd\u00a0 February 2024\/ <\/strong>Pictures of the Al Kuwait ship which docked in Cape Town with 19 000 cows aboard last Monday shows distressed cattle covered in urine and faeces. This deplorable news made headlines and provoked a great deal of indignation among residents and environmentalists in Cape Town.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Cynthia Moyo, Climate and&nbsp; Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace Africa said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>It is rather unfortunate that the ship was not impounded to save the cattle but was allowed to leave South Africa for its final destination, Iraq. The suffering of these&nbsp; animals transported in such poor conditions will continue. Animal welfare should be taken seriously and respected to avoid senseless harm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace Africa is committed to defending Animal welfare and challenging the systems that perpetuate harm. The appalling conditions aboard the ship reveal a disturbing truth of the ongoing appalling treatment of animals in our modern society. \u201cIt is shocking to see in this day and age that the transporters don\u2019t give consideration to&nbsp; the health of animals and the impacts on the communities.\u201d Cynthia concluded<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Luchelle Feukeng<\/strong>,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Communication and Story Manager<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:lfeukeng@greenpeace.org\">lfeukeng@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>+237 656 46 35 45<\/p>\n\n<p>Cynthia Moyo,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:cynthia.moyo@greenpeace.org\">cynthia.moyo@greenpeace.org<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of the Al Kuwait ship which docked in Cape Town with 19 000 cows aboard last Monday shows distressed cattle covered in urine and feces. This deplorable news made headlines and provoked a great deal of indignation among residents and environmentalists in Cape Town.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":54885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27,40,65],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-54884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecttheenvironment","tag-farming","tag-conservation","tag-southafrica","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54889,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54884\/revisions\/54889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54884"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=54884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}