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3 lions beheaded in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has launched an investigation into a disturbing case of poaching after the bodies of three lions were discovered beheaded in Hwange Nati...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:57hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Zimparks ranger survives 10 shoot-outs with poachers
The dedication and bravery of Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers in protecting wildlife and natural habitats were recently recognized at the belated World Ranger Day c...Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:20hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Retired Colonel Lionel Dyck dies
Retired Colonel Lionel Dyck, a distinguished veteran of the Zimbabwe National Army and head of the Dyck Advisory Group (DAG), has died. He succumbed to cancer in Capetown after a prolonged battle with...Published: 01 Jun 2024 at 18:30hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Italian investor Francesco Marconati flouts mining regulations...poses threat to national security
Italian investor Francesco Marconati's contentious actions in Zimbabwe's mining sector have raised serious concerns about regulatory compliance, worker safety, and ethical standards. Despite being ord...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 13:00hrs | 22 | by George Tshuma
Community Wildlife Scouts to complement sustainable human-wildlife relations - AWF
The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has built capacity of 118 community wildlife scouts through targeted professional trainings that equipped them with basic and advanced skills in ecological monito...Published: 21 Dec 2023 at 07:53hrs | 18 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean prison breaker re-arrested in SA while targeting game reserve for rhino poaching
One of the seven inmates who escaped from Makhanda correctional facility in October 2022 was this week rearrested in a private game reserve.Zimbabwean Abraham Moyane appeared at the Makhanda m...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa's precision-strike aircraft given Shona name 'Mwari'
The Paramount Group has produced and sold the first military aircraft made in South Africa since the 1980s when state-owned arms maker Denel SOC Ltd. unveiled the Rooivalk, or red falcon, attack helic...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
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...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zimbabwe to pay 100% of international hunting revenue to campfire communities
Christmas has certainly come early for Zimbabwe's hunting communities who are soon going to receive 100% payments from international hunting revenue. Under the Communal Areas Manage...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 10:37hrs | 10 | by Emmanuel Koro
U.S. removal of hold on elephant trophy hunting imports to boost Namibia's wildlife conservation
Namibia's wildlife conservation efforts were this year boosted following the U.S. Government's removal of the unnecessary hold on the African elephant trophy hunting imports. The five-yea...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 08:14hrs | 7 | by Emmanuel Koro
Botswana chieftainess fires last protest shot as British leaders scrap hunting trophies imports ban
After months of passionate appeals to the British Government to discontinue its plans to introduce the Trophy Hunting Imports Ban Bill, the protest voice of a Botswana Chieftainess who represents a wi...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 13:27hrs | 25 | by Emmanuel Koro
Where wildlife produces its own managers
When African wildlife 'sends' you to South Africa's Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) to study nature conservation, using international hunting revenue so that you can come back and manage it, yo...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 13:16hrs | 4 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zanu-PF aspiring MP arrested
POLICE have arrested Zanu-PF aspiring candidate for Binga North National Assembly constituency, Kuda Mavula Munsaka after he led a 25-man gang which stormed a fishing camp in Binga demanding release o...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aspiring MP accuses Binga investor of funding opposition
AN aspiring Zanu-PF Binga North Member of Parliament, Kudakwashe Munsaka, has allegedly threatened an International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) investor he accuses of funding the opposition party ...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Discontinue trophy hunting imports ban bill to save African wildlife'
A leading SADC Safari hunting company that has so far spent over US$367 000.00 to support wildlife conservation and socio-economic development in Tanzania has appealed to the British Government to dis...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 15:00hrs | 12 | by Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg
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 o...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 21:37hrs | 10 | by Emmanuel Koro
Namibian professional hunters also conserve wildlife
They bring international hunters and income to Africa. Additionally, they contribute to wildlife management and conservation through acceptable hunting...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 19:01hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Poachers take advantage of lockdowns
CASES of wildlife poaching have increased due to subdued anti-poaching activities that have been brought about by the lockdowns introduced to curb the spread of Covid-19.This was said by Paint...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tendaiishe Chitima wins 'Best Actress' at the I WILL TELL International Film Festival
Actress Tendaiishe Chitima has won "Best Actress" at the I WILL TELL International Film Festival on Sunday, September 5th for her outstanding performance in the film Gonarezhou: The Movie. ...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 16:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
SADC leadership ignores wildlife conservation as COVID-19 cripples tourism
The COVID-19 pandemic is clearly refusing to go away and is causing great damage in Africa — to both humankind and the tourism industry. This, in turn, is drastically reducing the income needed to c...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
The controversial role of private military, security companies in Africa
PRIVATE military companies (PMCs) have been involved in conflicts around the world, including Africa, for a long time and and different reasons.The growth of private military contractors raise...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 08:21hrs | 5 | by Jonathan Powell, Christopher Michael Faulkner, Joshua Lambert
Worry over increased poaching of painted dogs
PAINTED dogs, also known as wild dogs, face extinction as a result of increased illegal hunting by poachers, a conservation centre has revealed.The Painted Dogs Conservation Centre in Dete, wh...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:47hrs | | by Sytaff reporter
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 the...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 14 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mozambican community's promising hunting revenue powered development
Wildlife hunting is increasingly becoming the main 'driver' for not only socio-economic development but also for wildlife and wildlife habitat conservation, in southern African communities that co...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 17:03hrs | 5 | by Emmanuel Koro
5 poachers gunned down
FIVE poachers were gunned down by Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers in 10 incidents of armed confrontation in national parks this year amid an intensifying crackdown ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese community donates anti-poaching equipment
Sino Zimbabwe (SinoZim) Wildlife Foundation, in partnership with Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), yesterday donated six drones to capacitate the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zim...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tour de Tuli expedition underway
THE annual three nations' Tour de Tuli tourism expedition roared into life yesterday with visitors drawn from different countries across the globe participating. The event is held in the Great...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 18 years over animal trophies
A 60-YEAR-OLD Mushumbi man, who was facing five counts of illegal possession of lion claws, pangolin scales, a hippopotamus tooth, ivory and a small spotted genet's tail, all valued at $31 025, was la...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Black Panther star Danai in Zimbabwe
Actress Danai Gurira, Zimbabwe's export to Hollywood has been unveiled as the face of a local anti-poaching campaign running under the theme "Poaching Steals From Us All". The Black Panther st...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
National Geographic Traveller lists Zimbabwe in Top 10 'must-see' destinations
National Geographic Traveller, one of the world's leading travel magazines, has listed Zimbabwe as one of the 19 must see destinations in the world in 2019.Zimbabwe was placed at number nine, ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 07:43hrs | | by African News Agency
Dodgy North Korean envoy still holed up in Harare
LOCAL wildlife conservationists are still watching the movements of North Korea's representative in Harare, Kim Chung Su, amid growing worries about his alleged involvement in poaching syndicates in t...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe female rangers denied UK visas
The UK's decision to deny visas for two pioneering female anti-poaching rangers to attend an awards ceremony has been criticised by organisers.Zimbabwean Nyaradzo Hoto risks her life every day...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 09:35hrs | | by BBC
Poaching declines in Zimbabwe
There has been a marked decline in the number of elephants lost due to poaching this year owing to effective anti-poaching mechanisms.Statistics provided by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Man...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's daughter in anti-poaching film
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's daughter Tariro is set to feature in an anti-poaching film under the Gonarezhou Film Project.This comes as a direct war on poaching - a vice that has hit game pa...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 17:08hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Pair up for scattering oranges laced with cyanide in park
TWO Victoria Falls men have been dragged to court for allegedly throwing 68 cyanide-laced oranges in the Zambezi National Park.Mkhululi Nkomo (35) and Noel Mwembe (32) both from Mkhosana high-...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe army won't tolerate indiscipline'
SOLDIERS have been urged to maintain discipline and patriotism in safeguarding the gains of the country's Independence to ensure security and peace.Speaking at the Zimbabwe School of Infantry ...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warmonger's 'shoot-to-kill' policy revoked
The Botswana government has decided to withdraw military grade arms from its anti-poaching units on patrol along the country's borders.The move to recall what it called "arms of war" from the ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 17:26hrs | 16 | by Southern Times
Anti-poaching boost for Zimbabwe as Japan partners Zimparks
Japan has partnered the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority in its quest to curb the illegal killing if elephants.In a move that has been recommended by Convention on Internationa...Published: 21 May 2018 at 17:10hrs | | by Simiso Mlevu
The second Giants Club Summit addresses the survival of our elephants
The second Giants Club Summit meets in Kasane over the next few days, uniting African leadership with global science, finance and influence to accelerate anti-poaching efforts, close ivory markets, an...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 09:53hrs | | by Dr Louise de Waal
Rhino Poaching Stats: Slight Decrease But still Far Too High
The small decrease in overall poaching in 2017 has been overshadowed by a growing concern for the increase and broadening of poaching elsewhere in South Africa as onl...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 09:54hrs | 1 | by Louzel Lombard Steyn
Mnangagwa bans live elephant trade
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured below, has banned trade in live elephants following a global outcry in the wake of the sale of 34 baby elephants to China late last year.Mnangagwa also b...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Confusion as Zimbabwe promises review of elephant exports amidst global condemnation
Three weeks after 31 young elephants were exported, presumedly to China, Zimbabw...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 10:37hrs | 5 | by Adam Cruise and Christina Russo
'Shoot to kill,' says Mnangagwa ally
ENVIRONMENT, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchinguri has urged wildlife rangers to adopt a "shoot-to-kill policy" against poachers, whom she equated to robbers.Speaking at a graduation cer...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyanide poisoning claim 251 elephants since 2013
251 elephants have been killed due to cyanide poisoning since 2013 as the country continues to battle with the worrying scourge of poaching which is threatening Zimbabwe's wildlife heritage.Th...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 13:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
13 jumbos die in 'cyanide poisoning'
THIRTEEN elephants were found dead in a bush between Fuller Forest and Chikandakubi area outside Victoria Falls town on Wednesday in yet another suspected case of cyanide poisoning.A villager ...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZimParks declares zero tolerance to poaching
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has said it will maintain zero tolerance to wildlife poaching to protect the country's heritage despite resources constraints.Sp...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elephants cause havoc in Gwanda
A SOUTH Africa-based company working in the Hwange National Park in anti-poaching operations together with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks) has shown interest in helping Gwanda farmers...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 11:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Germans take control of Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou
GOVERNMENT has surrendered management of the Gonarezhou National Park to a German based-firm, Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), after failing to contain rampant poaching which was threatening to wip...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police 'hire out guns to poachers'
Police in Gokwe have come under fire for allegedly hiring out unregistered firearms and selling ammunition to poachers in a syndicate that is threatening elephant population in the area.This f...Published: 17 May 2017 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko, Mnangagwa impressed
VICE Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday toured stands at Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) and said they were impressed with the quality of exhibitions. Visi...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
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