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Shoe-prints expose trio over missing wild beast

Three villagers from Jeqe Village in Figtree appeared before Plumtree magistrate Mr Joshua Nembaware, facing charges of poaching a wild animal from Shashane Game Conservancy. Game scouts reportedly tracked distinctive shoe-prints and later…

Published: 27 Aug 2025 at 21:23hrs | 245 | by Gideon Madzikatidze & Simbarashe Sithole in Plumtree

Akashinga Anti-Poaching unit rocked by scandal

The high-profile Akashinga anti-poaching unit is facing a leadership shake-up and internal turmoil following the deaths of two suspected unarmed poachers in December 2024. The fallout has triggered dismissals and resignations at the top le…

Published: 02 Aug 2025 at 13:20hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter

4 arrested with 41 elephant tusks in Harare

Detectives from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Criminal Investigations Department (CID) last Friday arrested four suspects found in illegal possession of 41 elephant tusks weighing a total of 237 kilograms.ZRP national spokesperson Com…

Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:41hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter

Spike in wildlife poaching alarms Victoria Falls conservationists

The Victoria Falls Anti-Poaching Unit (VFAPU) has raised the alarm over a surge in wildlife poaching, with at least seven animals killed in April alone, including three buffaloes, one kudu, and three hornbills. In the same period, two elep…

Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:09hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter

Zimparks ranger arrested for lion poaching in Hwange National Park

A Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority ranger has been arrested in connection with the recent poaching of three lions, whose carcasses were discovered headless and without paws in Hwange National Park. Hali Mabuya (39)…

Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 07:00hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans convicted of rhino poaching, illegal possession of arms

Six Zimbabwean nationals have been found guilty in the Makhanda High Court of conspiracy to commit rhino poaching and illegal possession of firearms.They'll be back in court on the 4th of November for the start of sentencing proceedings.Th…

Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Obert Mpofu's ex-employee languishes in remand prison

FORMER Zanu-PF Victoria Falls mayor Sifiso Mpofu and two of his alleged accomplices are languishing in remand prison pending a High Court decision on their bail application, which they filed last week.Mpofu and his co-accused were locked u…

Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Obert Mpofu's ex-employee arrested with 120kg of ivory?

A former mayor of Zimbabwe's tourist hotspot Victoria Falls was caught with nine elephant tusks weighing 120 kilogrammes and arrested with two other suspects, police said on Friday.Sifiso Mpofu, 42, - who is the younger brother of the coun…

Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 07:09hrs | 3 | 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 parks in the country with the elephant and rhino …

Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 17:08hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter

Rhino poaching drop may mean we're running out of rhinos

A strategic report on poaching just released by the Department of Environmental Affairs shows that fewer rhinos but more elephants are being killed. Of concern, however, is what it leaves out.Until August this year, 506 rhinos were poached…

Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Janine Avery

How Grace Mugabe poaching claims benefit Mnangagwa

THE headline on the Herald could not have made it clearer: Police tighten noose on Grace Mugabe.The newspaper, for 37 years the mouthpiece of Robert Mugabe's government, is now the voice of the new President, Emmerson Mnangagwa.He replaced…

Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Keith Somerville

What's choking Kariba?

In the previous instalment Laiton Kandawire looked at overfishing and how fisheries authorities in both Zimbabwe and Zambia agreed to impose a Full Moon non-fishing ban of at least seven days to combat the scourge. The results, at least in…

Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 17:09hrs | | by Laiton Kandawire and Oliver Samboko

Elephant ambassador Charlie felled by poacherâ€™s guns

Tracking collars and sophisticated telemetary are a good way to see where wild elephants roam. They can also lead grisly discoveries about where they die. World famous Kruger National Park is being blindsided by its attachment to Mozambiqu…

Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 15:30hrs | 7 | by Don Pinnock

Headmaster arrested for poaching

Police have arrested two men, one of them a headmaster at a school in Tsholotsho, for illegal possession of elephant tusks weighing about 25kg.Thokozani Mafikela (43), a headmaster at Makhaza Primary School but residing Bulawayo's Lobengul…

Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

MDC-T MP arrested over poaching

Four people have been arrested in connection with suspected rhino poaching in Matobo National Park while an MDC-T legislator for Tsholotsho (Proportional Representation), Ms Lwazi Sibanda, has been questioned, police confirmed yesterday.Ma…

Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 05:22hrs | 1 | by Thupeyo Muleya

Top Zimbabwe cop fingered in poaching saga

A syndicate comprising police officers, Parks and Wildlife Management Authority rangers and Asians is behind the latest spate of elephant killings in Hwange National Park, it has emerged.One of the suspects under active instigation is an a…

Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 08:20hrs | | by Brian Chitemba and Tinashe Farawo

Reducing ivory demand and poaching most effective for saving - Study

New Study released on World Elephant Day 12 August: Reducing ivory demand and poaching most effective for saving elephants, not legalising tradeA  new economic analysis concludes that the most effective way to ensure the survival of A…

Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 07:05hrs | | by Andreas Wilson-SpÃ¤th

Cecil's death could help expose poaching syndicate at Hwange park

Hwange-While Zimbabwean authorities continue to mourn the death of Cecil, the country's favourite and foreign currency generating lion, a few questions remain unanswered. Are Zimbabweans being been told the whole truth about the circumstan…

Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 05:31hrs | 21 | by Thabo Kunene

Wildlife body intensifies anti-poaching efforts

Parks and Wildlife Management Authority says it recovered 135 rifles and 2 694 rounds of ammunition in the last four years as it steps up efforts to fight poaching and illegal wildlife trade in the country.The authority has also recorded a…

Published: 23 Dec 2014 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Govt officials fingered in cyanide poisoning

The mastermind in one of the country's biggest ecological disasters, which resulted in the death of more than 100 elephants at the Hwange National Park, is walking free because bureaucrats tempered with the country's judiciary, Environment…

Published: 15 Apr 2014 at 12:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Hwange National Park, poaching on the rise

Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) spokesperson Caroline Washaya-Moyo said poaching of key species of animals within Hwange National Park increased to 329 cases last year from 315 witnessed in 2012.The animals targ…

Published: 01 Jan 2014 at 07:54hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter

Rhino poaching threat in the UK

Police have stepped up security at two wildlife parks in southeast England in response to a plot to hunt rhinos.The parks in Kent - Port Lympne and Howletts - have also called for volunteers to help them carry out 24-hour patrols.There are…

Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 14:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter

Ajax is not poaching Bosso juniors

Ajax Hotspurs Football Club read with dismay in today's Chronicle paper that the club is poaching Highlander's junior players. At Ajax we don't poach players but we develop players. The Highlanders member who raised the issue should be pro…

Published: 18 Jul 2012 at 06:00hrs | | by Siphambaniso Dube

Rhino poaching triples in South Africa

South African and Kenya are seeing a dramatic increase in the killing of rhinos for their horns, according to national park officials.Last year, 333 rhinos were killed in South Africa, including 10 critically endangered black rhino species…

Published: 20 Jan 2011 at 03:23hrs | 1 | by Byo24NEWS

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