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Kariba tourists decline spurs Senate debate
Senators have called on central government to expeditiously provide financial resources for construction of a new airport in Kariba and upgrade its tourist facilities to international standards....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:15hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
'Declare Kariba an economic zone to boost tourism'
MASHONALAND West Senator Sikelela Gumpo (Zanu PF) has called on government to declare Kariba a special economic zone, saying the town has the potential to earn foreign currency, as well as open up emp...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:14hrs | 60 | 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 | 1218 | 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 | 1103 | 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 | 1430 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1248 | by Dr Louise de Waal
Moses Mzila and sons arrested in Zimbabwe
The 1893 MHRRM has been alerted that Moses Mzila Ndlovu and his two sons have been arrested by the Zimbabwean police today on trumped up charges of robbery at the Figtree Police station in Matebelelan...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 11:43hrs | 8788 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
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 | 2354 | 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 | 148 | 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 | 786 | 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....Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 09:36hrs | 528 | by Janine Avery
Bulawayo mayor welcomes Kenyan environmental conservationist
Bulawayo mayor Solomon Madlala Mguni to day welcome the Kenyan national Jim Nyamu and his team who traversed Africa on foot from Nairobi raising awareness against poaching.Mguni said: "Today, ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 17:15hrs | 1482 | by Stephen Jkaes
ZimParks translocates 100 buffaloes to Hwange
ZIMBABWE Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has moved 100 buffaloes from Zambezi National Park to Sidinda in Hwange to boost tourism in the area.ZimParks western region manager...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to receive gorillas from DRC
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) is soon expected to take delivery of okapi and gorilla breeds in a wildlife exchange programme with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 2160 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1254 | 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 | 724 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns Tongaat Hulett
President Mnangagwa last Friday warned Lowveld sugar producer Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe against resisting accommodation of more indigenous players in sugar cane farming as part of Government's empowerme...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1275 | 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 | 700 | by Staff reporter
Zimparks rangers, poachers in fierce shootout
Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks) game rangers on Saturday night were engaged in a 30-minute shootout with a band of poachers who had gunned down an elephant bull in Hwange Nat...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:03hrs | 549 | 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 | 2093 | by Southern Times
Prince Harry was ours: Beitbridge
UNITED KINGDOM Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle at the weekend beamed live across the world had another effect in a small town of Zimbabwe called Beitbridge.Lying some 12 600km along th...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | 2214 | by Staff reporter
MRP President summoned by Matobo youths
Mthwakazi Republic Party's National Executive Committee led by it's President Mqondisi Moyo who is also the party's Parliamentary candidate for Matobo North was summoned to Matobo North's Ward 16 by t...Published: 22 May 2018 at 15:51hrs | 1791 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 914 | by Simiso Mlevu
Man found in possession of ivory sentenced
A 43-year-old man from Mbire was slapped with an effective nine year and one month sentence for possessing ivory without a licence. Francis Mapfumo of Mapfumo village under Chief Chitsun...Published: 08 May 2018 at 23:43hrs | 980 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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 voi...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 06:41hrs | 3799 | by Keith Somerville
How Grace Mugabe poaching claims benefit Zimbabwe's new president
The headline on the Zimbabwe 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 ...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 13:45hrs | 2879 | by Keith Somerville, University of Kent
FDI guru comes to Zimbabwe
Government is keen to learn from Rwanda's development model and yesterday the chief executive of the Rwanda Development Board, Ms Clare Akamanzi, arrived in Harare to share her country's experience at...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 06:54hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Police tighten noose on Grace Mugabe
Police have intensified investigations into a case in which former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe allegedly smuggled ivory worth millions of dollars to underground foreign markets.Sources close t...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 06:42hrs | 2560 | by Staff reporter
Dictator Ian Khama steps down, hands over to Masisi
Khama has visited all of Botswana's 57 constituencies since December, bidding a long goodbye to a population of just 2.2 million after serving the constitutional maximum of 10 years in office....Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 10:55hrs | 5856 | by AFP
26-year-old polygamist nabbed for possession of ivory
A 26-year-old Mbire polygamist was arrested on Sunday for possessing an elephant tusk and a fake wooden ivory.James Shereni from Humbasha village under Chief Chitsungo in Mbire was trapped and...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 14:37hrs | 611 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Adios Cde Dr Amai Grace
Now that the local news wires are ablaze with how lewd Mrs Grace Mugabe conducted herself in front of the law, it becomes clear that to her and her family, the Constitution was just but one of those p...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | 13972 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
WATCH: How photographer nailed Grace Mugabe
Zimbabwe has launched an investigation into the country's former first lady, Grace Mugabe, over her alleged involvement in an ivory smuggling ring.The probe was opened after a three-month unde...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 13:10hrs | 4958 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe in messy scandal
Former first lady Grace Mugabe has been named in a government report on elephant poaching and smuggling of ivory in a scandal that might have cost the country millions of dollars.The reports b...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:13hrs | 1458 | by Staff reporter
Undercover photographer nailed Grace Mugabe
The government has launched an investigation into former first lady Grace Mugabe over her alleged involvement in an ivory smuggling ring.The probe was opened after a three-month undercover mis...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:12hrs | 2012 | by Staff reporter
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 | 523 | by Dr Louise de Waal
Zimbabwe, back from the brink
Three weeks ago a young elephant wound her trunk around my arm and began – politely, elegantly, insistently – to pull my hand into her mouth and suck the salt sweat off my fingers. It was the happ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 08:16hrs | 2006 | by Katherine Rundell
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 | 310 | 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 | 414 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tobacco under threat
TOBACCO, Zimbabwe's largest foreign currency earner is under threat after main international buyers resolved not to accept tobacco cured using coal citing environmental concerns.Recently, the ...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 05:26hrs | 601 | 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 | 1354 | 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 | 752 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe implicated in international ivory poaching syndicate
Harare - Investigations into illicit and illegal activities led and directed by the former first lady of the country Grace Mugabe have intensified, amid indications the government will make a huge sta...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 09:33hrs | 25319 | by Khuluma Afrika
Suspected Zimbabwean poachers nabbed in SA
FOUR suspected poachers, believed to be Zimbabweans, appeared before the Tshilwavhusiku Magistrates' Court outside Makhado, South Africa, charged with possession of an unlicenced firearm and ammunitio...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 05:44hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
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...Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 13:20hrs | 11321 | by Christina Russo and Adam Cruise
14 elephants found dead
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a matter of 14 elephants found dead on Friday in Victoria Falls,13 of which were killed 9 months ago.Sources close to investigations allege ...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 11:18hrs | 1394 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean man to be extradited to Botswana
Zimbabwean national Dumisani Moyo, who has been described as a poaching kingpin by the Zimbabwean media, has lost his bid to halt his extradition to Botswana where he is due to stand trial for a crimi...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 06:57hrs | 2181 | by Stephen Jakes
Father of 11 children in battle for birth certificates
A 53-year-old man from Robert Sinyoka in Bulawayo is struggling to get birth certificates for his 11 children who cannot access any official service in the country as they do not have identity particu...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 06:17hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Man shoots, kills dad for inheritance
A 36-YEAR-OLD man from Binga, who allegedly shot his father dead in cold blood after the old man refused to let him inherit his homestead while he was still alive, is on the run.Fullback Siban...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 06:14hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Former cop in hot soup
A 72-year-old former cop appeared in court charged with impersonation after he allegedly claimed to be a police officer assigned to mobilise meat for the Presidential Interface Rally held in Lupane in...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:46hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Two men in court for hunting without licence
Two Guruve men were arraigned before Guruve magistrate court yesterday after hunting a female Eland and a porcupineBrian Chimbumu (31) and Calvin Muzwati (24) of Zvikumbo village pleaded not g...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:41hrs | 94 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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