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Would learning how to use A.I. to communicate with animals make U.S. and China work together on other issues?

A lot of people involved with developing artificial Intelligence (A.I.) believe that learning how to communicate with animals could allow the U.S. and China to deal more easily with political subjects. The new technology has already demons…

Published: 18 Sep 2025 at 06:51hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro

US Leaders Overseeing Cites: Do your jobs - an Open Letter to President Donald Trump

Dear Mr President, The international agency charged with protecting wildlife on the brink of extinction is known as CITES - the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.It was created by the United Na…

Published: 23 Jan 2025 at 22:45hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro

New cooking tools reduce wastage while improving taste

Are you aware of some staggering statistics concerning our food supply? According to the Shoprite 2024 survey, South African Food Security Index is at its lowest point in more than a decade. The survey established that in 2023, 45.3% of So…

Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 00:49hrs | 149 | by Emmanuel Koro

'Artificial ivory opens another way to end ban on natural ivory trade' says U.S. NGO

A United States-based NGO welcomed a BBC report this month that Austrian scientists have developed a new artificial ivory product, called Digory, that looks and feels like the real thing. The managing director of the U.S.-based Ivory Educa…

Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:41hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Koro

Hunting benefits truths can collapse Anti-hunting Animal Rights Groups

The recent 'flooding' of the media and British House Lords with the truths about international hunting benefits not only caused a rethink on the UK trophy hunting imports ban Bill but can also eventually collapse the dishonest force behind…

Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 10:13hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro

Animal rights group-funded report denounced for lying that international hunting threatens Botswana elephants

Botswana, was recently targeted by an animal rights group-funded report, saying that international hunting is threatening the SADC country's wildlife, including its elephant population and impoverishing hunting communities. Yet, Botswana i…

Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:09hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro

Mozambican community's conflict with safari hunting company ends in success - a lesson for all

Mozambique's international hunting challenges and opportunities , including those of other African countries come under the spotlight when it hosts the African Wildlife Consultative Forum in Maputo in October 2022.The return of the souther…

Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:09hrs | 11 | by Emmanuel Koro

How NGOs scandalously manage to assume power in UN agency Cites

THE managing director of the USA-based Ivory Education Institute Godfrey Harris, revealed his analysis of how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) achieved overwhelming influence within the UN international wildlife trade regulating agenc…

Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:22hrs | 11 | by Emmanuel Koro

Zimbabwe to maintain must-visit international hunting destination status

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic's disruptive waves that continue to result in international travel bans, the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe (SOAZ) plans to mount a 2022 vigorous campaign, in order to maintain Zimbabwe' status as on…

Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 21:37hrs | 13 | by Emmanuel Koro

Safari hunting companies urged to consider human rights-focused rural development

The days of hunting season-focused employment of a handful of locals and hand-outs of a few chunks of protein-boosting game meat are over.  This development approach is unfair to the African hunting communities that suffer from the so…

Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:39hrs | 15 | by Emmanuel Koro

Namibia returns to uninterrupted hunting as animal rights groups seek to spoil the 'party'

Namibians have welcomed the return of uninterrupted hunting, following a near-total absence of international hunting in 2020, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic travel bans. As hunting returns to normal in Namibia rural communities such …

Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 21:19hrs | 5 | by Emmanuel Koro

Botswana bounces back on international hunting map after long absence

Africa's hunting culture, including that of Botswana, will never die, no matter how much Western animal rights groups try to influence African leaders to ban it. For a country that missed hunting like the deserts miss the rain over a …

Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 16:53hrs | 12 | by Emmanuel Koro

International organizations urge Africa to oppose EU ivory trade ban bid

"The European Commission's proposed ban on international trade in ivory will be a disaster for those African communities who rely on wildlife for food and job security" according to a joint statement of the South Africa headquartered Afric…

Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 17:33hrs | 17 | by Emmanuel Koro

SADC silence on trade in wildlife embarrassing

Why does it take people in power seemingly forever to accomplish something good for the people they serve and the wildlife they look after? Are our leaders so concerned with taking care of their own well-being that they ignore the well-bei…

Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro

Why movement to restore American democracy is needed

Wildlife-rich and climate change-vulnerable Sub-Saharan Africa has been following the political events unfolding in the United States with great interest. What happens in America still has worldwide consequences.No wonder the violent prote…

Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Emmanuel Koro

Human wildlife conflict stops agriculture where hunting brings hope

Co-existing with wildlife can be both a curse and a blessing. The human-wildlife conflict has brought the century-old culture of agricultural production to a sad and difficult end in Botswana's Chobe Enclave Community. But the so…

Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 18:21hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Koro

Open Letter to the heads of state of SADC nations

More than business as usual needed to save wildlife and people from covid-19 destructionYOUR EXCELLENCIES:We are facing an unprecedented wildlife conservation crisis. With COVID-19 impacting tourism to the point that earnings have been nex…

Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro

Where wildlife produces medical doctors

In Africa, some communities still don't have a single person who has graduated as a medical doctor. The reasons are many. It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their education. In some very unfortunate situations, i…

Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 14 | by Emmanuel Koro

Why SADC countries still 'oppose' rhino horn trade

SADC countries have individually decided not to get involved in the non-commercial international trade in rhino horn. This questionable decision has happened despite approval for such trade by the UN international wild trade-regulating age…

Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Koro

Mnangagwa hailed for Cites pullout plan

President Mnangagwa's announcement that Zimbabwe plans to pull out of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (Cites) has triggered excitement in Geneva, Switzerland at the Cites CoP18. The pro-sus…

Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 15 | by Emmanuel Koro

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Six Dead, 40 Injured in Harare–Mukumbura Road Bus Crash

No to 2030 extension

Police confirm Bulawayo-Beitbridge road accident

Zimbabwe loans ARVs to Botswana, donates portion in regional health solidarity

Govt to launch Responsible Mining Initiative amid worsening land degradation

MP Mhangwa urges govt to cut LPG Import Bill through local gas substitution

Man dies in bicycle accident

Relegation-threatened Bosso players boycott training

Pavillon bus involved in a serious accident

Tragedy in Mt Darwin as cow falls into well, killing young woman

Zimbabwe announces strict enforcement of axle load limits

Zanu-Pf, Eureka Mine unleash violence on artisinal miners

Church Leaders Unite to Tackle Africa's Social Crises at Landmark Summit

Minister to Lead Sanitation Awareness Drive in Guruve Amid Open Defecation Concerns*

BCC launch blitz on traffic laws violator

Gray Hair: Nature’s Warning Signal or Cancer Shield?

'Power cut at Parly during SONA was deliberate'

MPs Push for Service Charge Relief for Elderly Amid Lack of National Policy

Zimbabwean agitator deported from Tanzania

Zimbabwean national arrested in Khayelitsha

Push for unity among Ndebele Royal claimants

Herentals to play 3 home games behind closed doors

Zimbabwe to give Zambia more water at Kariba

ZRP disciplines cops over viral video

Matobo rocked by corrupt and dubious land grab

Mnangagwa launches AI-powered smart silos in Mutare

No justification for bread price increases

Teen girl raped twice by cousin during babysitting sleepover

Teen remanded over blanket, shoe theft

Bulawayo hits Starlink capacity