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Bulawayo cracks down against gold panners
In a bid to curb the increasing menace of illegal gold panning and sand poaching in Matabeleland South province, the Bulawayo City Council is planning to establish a permanent base for its rangers and...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 09:13hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
ZimParks offers US$2,000 reward for lion poachers
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has announced a reward of US$2,000 for any information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the poaching of three lions in Hwa...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 11:24hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
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 | 837 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo commissions 141 housing stands in Luveve North
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC), in collaboration with private land developer Natwecraft Investments (Pvt) Limited, has successfully commissioned 141 high-density housing stands in Luveve North suburb...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 07:58hrs | 452 | 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 | 528 | by Staff reporter
22 poachers shot dead
Since adopting a shoot-to-kill policy in 2019, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) rangers have encountered 111 shoot-outs with poachers, resulting in the deaths of 22 poachers...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners invade Bulawayo suburbs
GOLD panners have invaded Bulawayo causing environmental degradation in two of its suburbs, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has said.The illegal gold panners have caused environmental degradat...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Donkey remains irk Bulawayo residents
RESIDENTS of Cowdray Park in Bulawayo have raised a red flag over fresh donkey parts found in the suburb, raising suspicions that the animals could have been stolen from surrounding areas and slaughte...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 04:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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 | 27 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Gold panners wreak havoc in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO municipal police have arrested 140 illegal miners since January for panning for gold near the city's water bodies, causing massive siltation.This is revealed in the council's environm...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:48hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Wildlife cave paintings - Namibia's strongest argument for International Hunting
In Namibia's centuries-old wildlife cave paintings messages lies the Southern African country's strongest argument for international hunting."We co-existed with wildlife and hunted it for meat...Published: 08 Nov 2023 at 09:29hrs | 34 | by Emmanuel Koro
Senior Civil servant nabbed for poaching
A senior civil servant was last week arrested for poaching after being found in possession of zebra meat at a road block along Harare-Mukumbur...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 09:06hrs | 5 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Bulawayo councillor eyes council mine dump
BULAWAYO councillor Monica Lubimbi, her partner Sikhanyisiwe Nyathi and Belmac Investments (Pvt) Ltd are seeking permission from the local authority to collect mine dump sands from Paddock 40 Farm at ...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Overfishing depletes the Zambezi
Since quitting her post as a teacher about six years ago, 33-year-old Hazel Svinurai has made numerous break-of-dawn trips to the edges of the Zambezi River, about 500km from her home in Zimbabwe's se...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners fuel Zimbabwe's wildlife illicit financial flows
It was business as usual for Mgcini Ncube when he was caught by detectives while skinning an impala deep inside Victoria Falls' Zambezi National Park.Ncube (37) had set up a temporary structur...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:00hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe accused of smuggling ivory, diamonds without her husband's knowledge
THE late former President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace allegedly used her position to smuggle diamonds and ivory out of the country without her husband's knowledge, according to the latest episode of A...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 09:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Zambia in border impasse
ZIMBABWE and Zambia have directed the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) to mediate in negotiations which would lead to a clear demarcation of the two countries' border line on Lake Kariba's waters, the Zi...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police rescue 2 abandoned babies amid 'baby-dumping' spike
Police in Bulawayo rescued two babies found dumped at two locations in the city.Police said both tots, thought to be just two weeks old, have been hospitalised.In the first incident on...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare braces for second Operation Murambatsvina
MUNICIPALITIES in Harare Province have been ordered to provide material and human resources amounting to tens of thousands in US dollars for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 45-day presidential cleanup ...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 20:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners besiege Kwekwe monuments
GOLD panners have invaded three historical monuments in Globe and Phoenix, Kwekwe, leaving the properties facing possible collapse.The illegal miners have been digging tunnels and pits at the ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
30 kgs ivory lands four in trouble
FOUR suspected poachers on Wednesday appeared before Guruve magistrates court on charges of contravening the Parks and Wildlife Act....Published: 15 Oct 2022 at 17:49hrs | 25 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MPs want Zimbabwe to quit Cites
LEGISLATORS are calling on the government to quit Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in order for the trading and eating of wildlife animals to go ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | 2 | 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 | 2 | by Emmanuel Koro
Robber, poachers arrested
A 34-year-old suspected armed robber has been arrested in Bulawayo for allegedly attacking, with help from an accomplice, a man at a bus stop, stealing his wallet containing US$2 500 before speeding o...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 23:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Botswana jails Zimbabwe pensioner for shooting fisherman
A 72-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean pensioner, Ian Douglas Carlisle, has been jailed one year in Botswana for shooting a fisherman whom he found fishing in a river at his farm.The shooting incident occur...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Brig-Gen Mabenge
President Mnangagwa has described national hero Brigadier-General Benjamin Mabenge (Retired) as an intelligent and principled cadre who never deviated from the cause of the revolution from the time of...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 112 gold panners in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC), in conjunction with the police, the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) and the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority have since January this year ar...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Bulawayo top sand poaching stats - EMA
HARARE and Bulawayo have been identified as the country's leading provinces with rampant illegal sand poaching with authorities calling for stiffer penalties that are deterrent in order to ward off po...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 23:58hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Illegal sale of ivory escalates amid ban
RANGE States attending the African Elephant Conference in Hwange have said allowing trade in elephants and their products will reduce illegal buying and selling, contrary to claims by the Convention o...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's once-off sale of ivory stockpiles acceptable
ZIMBABWE is desperately seeking international support to be allowed to sell its stockpile of ivory to raise funds for its conservation efforts.It is an age-old problem for the southern African...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Mundoza tree has become an oracle
The two trees stand side by side as if nature's siblings, one a Casternabar and the other a 'Mutohwe'. One is domesticated and the other wild but they are both fruit trees. Their combined cano...Published: 08 May 2022 at 15:35hrs | 13 | by Mutanda Wachingama
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 | 13 | by Emmanuel Koro
Bees fend off illegal loggers
Tanaka Ngara (39), who lived in Watsomba village in Zimbabwe's Mutasa district, transformed his fortune through beekeeping, which also successfully helped safeguard his area's dwindling forests....Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN wildlife protection agency 'violates' its own trade regulating rules
The United Nations international wild trade regulating agency, CITES, continues to go through a dark passage from which it will likely emerge as the destroyer, rather than the saviour, of the world's ...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 09:22hrs | 6 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mysterious dead donkey found at Mpopoma house
RESIDENTS of Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo are in shock after they woke up to ‘scenes' of a dead donkey at the gate of a neighbour's house in Block 81 today.Circumstances surrounding how the do...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 | 11 | by Emmanuel Koro
'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 | 23 | by Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg
15kgs of ivory lands poachers in hot soup
Two suspected poachers who were found in possession of 15 kilograms of ivory were arrested and dragged to court yesterday. ...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 20:02hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Don't cause Zambian wildlife loss' British govt told
The President for Zambia National Community Resources Board Association(ZNCRBA)Mr George Tembo said that the British Government's recent announcement to ban international trophy hunting impo...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 15:15hrs | 15 | by Emmanuel Koro
Victoria Falls wants more bicycles than cars in CBD
Victoria Falls could soon be the first "green city" in the country with more bicycles than cars in the city centre.Pedestrians and electric cars will also be part of the new normal in the envi...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:52hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Only 2 000 registered to vote, claims Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday revealed that it registered only 2 000 new voters in 2021, a drop in the ocean in the face of various campaigns by political parties and civic groups ...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam most touted project in 2021
"From the budget presented in December, we allocated some money so that construction begins. I have promised traditional leaders that I will make sure that more money is released so that the construct...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Poachers threaten Kariba fisheries
KAPENTA fish producers have raised concern over illegal fish trade at Lake Kariba saying this is threatening the viability of the industry.According to section 7 of the Commercial Kapenta Prod...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:53hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Armed sand poachers invade Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents' associations have called on government to deploy armed police to stop sand poaching activities in most residential areas.The residents' associations said sand poachers were...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe laws protect animals more than human beings'
BULAWAYO-BASED human rights groups have expressed concern over the country's wildlife laws, which they say offer more protection to animals than to human beings, who end up being attacked or killed by...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
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 Afri...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:39hrs | 14 | by Emmanuel Koro
Sand poachers wreak havoc in Bulawayo
ILLEGAL sand poachers are now targeting undeveloped housing stands in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb, leaving unclaimed pits that pose a danger to children.Two children drowned in one of the u...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:48hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Sand poachers steal road rehabilitation sand
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has declared war on sand poachers in St Peter's on the outskirts of Bulawayo and yesterday council rangers deflated tyres of some of the suspects' vehicles in a bid to ...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sand poachers degrade Bulawayo
RAMPANT sand poaching and chopping down of trees is causing environmental degradation in and around Bulawayo amid revelations that the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) only has five rangers instead of 74 n...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
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