{"id":283,"date":"2012-06-29T17:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/zambia\/?p=283"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:26:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:26:38","slug":"lavushi-manda-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/2012\/06\/29\/lavushi-manda-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavushi Manda National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2012\/06\/IMG_6982.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-284 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2012\/06\/IMG_6982-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2012\/06\/IMG_6982-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2012\/06\/IMG_6982-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We were lucky enough to spend 4 days hiking in Lavushi Manda National Park.\u00a0 Lavushi Manda was extensively poached in the 1970s and 1980s and poaching has continued up to the present day.\u00a0 The Kasanka Trust has just recently taken over Lavushi Manda and is now trying to start protecting the park and re-introduce wildlife.\u00a0 Right now the park functions mainly as a hiking destination but there are hopes that the animals will increase with more protection.\u00a0 We did not see any large animals while we were there but we did see sign of bush pig and duiker.\u00a0 The rocks are mainly quartzites.\u00a0 These are sandstones that have been metamorphosed under extreme heat and pressure deep in the earth.\u00a0 The rock layers have been twisted and tipped upright which gives the park its rugged landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were lucky enough to spend 4 days hiking in Lavushi Manda National Park.\u00a0 Lavushi Manda was extensively poached in the 1970s and 1980s and poaching has continued up to the present day.\u00a0 The Kasanka Trust has just recently taken over Lavushi Manda and is now trying to start protecting the park and re-introduce wildlife.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/2012\/06\/29\/lavushi-manda-national-park\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 04:21:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}