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'African lion faces extinction'
Africa's lion population has drastically declined, with only 23,000 to 39,000 remaining in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This drop is due to habitat...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 07:04hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Prince William honours Zimbabwean ranger
A Zimbabwean wildlife ranger - Jealous Mpofu has received a prestigious award honour from Britain's Prince William for his outstanding service to the protection of painted dogs which are under threat ...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 15:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'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 ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:41hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mozambique and Zimbabwe establish tri-basin institution to manage the Buzi, Pungwe, and save water resources
Harare, May 2023: The governments of Mozambique and Zimbabwe have established a tri-basin institution to manage the Buzi, Pungwe, and Save River Basins' water resources, which have, over the years, su...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 19:21hrs | 1 | by Agencies
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 impoverishi...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:09hrs | | 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 | | by Emmanuel Koro
'Trophy Hunting escalates Human Wildlife Conflict' - CNRG
AN animal rights group, the Centre for Natural Resource Governance has condemned the Government of Zimbabwe's decision of selling hunting rights of the endangered elephants to fund its conservation ef...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 11:41hrs | | by George Swarei
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...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:43hrs | 9 | by Melissa Reitz
Confusion over Botswana’s elephant population
Botswana’s parliament recently passed a motion considering lifting the ban on elephant trophy hunting, citing an increase in both the elephant population and human-elephant conflict (HEC) as their m...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 07:42hrs | | by Dr Louise de Waal
Zimbabwe donates 10 rhinos to DRC
Zimbabwe has donated 10 white rhinos to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has said.According to the organisation, the dona...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 17:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA hunters to shoot 2000 Zambian hippos
South African hunters will take part in the slaughter of 2 000 hippos in the pristine Luangwa Valley in Zambia. This follows a shock move by the Zambian government, which overturned a 2016 decision to...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Janine Avery
Captive cheetah breeding is reaching epidemic proportions in South Africa
An extremely worrying trend is emerging in South Africa, where cheetahs are bred on demand, taken away from their mothers to be hand-reared for cub petting, to become well-beh...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 10:25hrs | | by Louise de Waal
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...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 09:02hrs | 11 | by Adam Cruise
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 | 3 | by Adam Cruise and Christina Russo
Marine experts say decision could wipe out SA's fish stocks
SA's top marine scientists are shocked by the Environmental Department's (DEA) recent decision to allow fishing in the Tsitsikamma Marine Protected Area (MPA) and have announced that they will be usin...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 10:30hrs | | by Melissa Reitz
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&...Published: 07 Nov 2016 at 12:29hrs | | by Adam Cruise
Fate of Africa's Elephants Hangs in the Balance after COP 17
A golden opportunity to stop the catastrophic decline of Africa's elephants had been missed as CoP17 wrapped up in Johannesburg yesterday.Following the results from the Great Elephant Census a...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 11:11hrs | | by Adam Cruise
Wildlife under threat from legal trade in Southern Africa
Southern Africa is losing protected wild plants and animals at an alarming rate. Between 2005 and 2014, around 18,000 individual species worth US$340-million were legally sold. This figure, wh...Published: 05 Oct 2016 at 17:53hrs | | by Jane Surtees
DO or Die: deciding the pangolin's fate at COP17
As CITES COP17 gets underway the eyes of the conservation world are focused on Johannesburg, where the global wildlife conference is taking place. Running from 24 September to 5 October, with 181 coun...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 09:11hrs | | by Hazel Friedman
IUCN calls on SA Government to end canned hunting
A motion to terminate the hunting and breeding of captive lions and other predators in South Africa has been approved by the IUCN World Conservation Congress currentl...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 22:54hrs | | by Melissa Reitz
Counting elephants - Two-year, Africa-wide census finds alarming declines
It took two years, 81 aircraft and 286 crew flying 494 000 kilometres across 18 countries and the support of 90 scientists to count Africa's savanna elephants. The final tally was an extremely worryin...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 11:51hrs | | by Don Pinnock
AFR100 to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa
African countries have launched African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), a Pan-African, country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes by 203...Published: 07 Dec 2015 at 14:26hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani in Paris, France
Hunters hold African wildlife to ransom
The worlds wealthiest hunting organization, Safari Club International (SCI) and professional hunting groups, met behind closed doors with the South African Department of Environment (DEA) ...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 07:34hrs | | by Adam Cruise
SA lags behind in responsible tourism
A NSPCA report has revealed that elephant rides are still widely available in South Africa, despite a growing international move away from the controversial practice.The report by the NS...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 11:55hrs | | by Melissa Reitz
Latest conflict resource: poachers on the prowl for ivory
An average of about 45 elephants per day were illegally killed in 2011 in every two of five protected sites holding elephant populations in Africa, thanks to the growing illegal trade in ivory, ...Published: 10 Jan 2014 at 22:33hrs | | by Pavithra Rao
Could shark fin victory offer hope for elephants?
Recent positive feedback regarding the onslaught on sharks is extremely encouraging news for advocates of non-trade solutions to the elephant and rhino poaching crisis across Africa. According t...Published: 28 Oct 2013 at 07:04hrs | 7 | by Francis Garrard
Rhino horn is not medicine, its just a myth, lets protect the rhino
Zimbabwe has, for the first time in its history, set aside a day to exclusively commemorate the life of the rhino, which faces extinction due to extensive poaching, the world over. Unless concerted an...Published: 24 Sep 2011 at 13:14hrs | | by Francis Nhema
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