Zimbabwe's growing elephant problem

ONE late April evening, Christina Mudzongachiso and her husband were about to head home after a day in their cotton fields in Mbire, a rural community in northern Zimbabwe.That's when a lone e...

US to support Zimbabwe's trade in baby elephants

US zoos now plan to import baby elephants from Zimbabwe, undeterred by the international furore over their 2016 import of 18 wild elephants from Swaziland.The US Association of Zoos and Aquari...

US poll says NO to Botswana plans to hunt and cull elephants

As the Botswana government rumbles towards the lifting of the ban on hunting its famous wildlife, an authoritative poll in the United States, from which the second greatest number of foreign tourists ...

South African Donkeys slaughtered for bogus Chinese medicine

South Africa is implicated in the supply of donkeys for Chinese medicine reveals a report  released today, World Donkey Day. The Donkeys are slaughtered in great numbers for their skins and expor...

U.S. the biggest importer of endangered African wildlife trophies

The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump's recent public comments  overturning  a decision by the US Departmen...

Confusion as Zimbabwe promises review of elephant exports amidst global condemnation

Three weeks after 31 young elephants were exported, presumedly to China, Zimbabw...

Elephant calves exported from Zimbabwe as China bans ivory trade

China has reportedly imported more than 30 wild caught elephant calves from Zimbabwe in a controversial if not cynical move which took place on the very day China banned the sale of ivory.31 w...

Elephants and mango crops saved in difficult rescue

Three bull elephants were saved from being shot and further damage to mango orchards averted after the bulls broke through the fences of a game reserve bordering the Kruger Park, raiding local farms a...

Irregularities surrounding death of Cecil the Lion's son

The death of Cecil's son, Xanda at the hands of trophy hunters on 7 July is mired in confusion. He was shot just outside Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, near the spot his father had been killed by Am...

Zimbabwe should not allow export of Xanda's remains without a full investigation, says HSI

In a letter to The Honorable Oppah Muchinguri MP, the Minister of Environment, Water and Climate of Zimbabwe, Humane Society International is calling on the government of Zimbabwe to investigate the i...

Baby elephants from Zimbabwe headed for Chinese zoos!

Thirty seven baby elephants forcibly taken from their mothers in the wild in Hwange National Park  are about to be flown to Chinese zoos, despite an international outcry against previous exports&...