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Wildlife ranger dies after Rhino attack at Save Valley Conservancy

A wildlife ranger from Save Valley Conservancy has tragically died from injuries sustained during a black rhino encounter, the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) has confirmed.Knowledge Mudzimureka, aged 37, passed…

Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 17:16hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter

2 Zimbabweans, 1 South Africa jailed for rhino poaching

Two Zimbabwean men and their South African associate have each been sentenced to five years in prison after being arrested while attempting to poach a rhino in South Africa's Limpopo province.The trio - Kholwani Mwembe (40) and Emmanuel Ma…

Published: 03 Apr 2025 at 17:52hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter

Chinese arrested for possessing rhino horns

A 62-year-old Chinese national appeared before the Harare Magistrates' Court facing charges of possessing rhino horns valued at US$360,000.Harare magistrate Sheunesu Matova remanded Lin Wang in custody until March 11 for routine remand, ad…

Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 07:01hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter

4 Rhinos die at Lake Chivero

Lake Chivero Recreational Park has been rocked by the deaths of four rhinos, along with several other species, due to contamination from cyanobacteria in the water sources of the park. Despite intervention from veterinarians from the Unive…

Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 11:24hrs | 1717 | by Staff reporter

Chinese man on the run over rhino horns

A Chinese man, Lin Wang, is on the run after a clearing agent, Cuthbert Maoko, was arrested for attempting to facilitate the smuggling of five rhinoceros horns hidden in an owl-shaped plastic sculpture to China. The horns, valued at approx…

Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:07hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe man arrested with rhino horn parts at Harare airport

A 34-year-old Chitungwiza man, Cuthbert Maoko, was arrested at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport for attempting to smuggle five rhino horn pieces out of the country. The incident occurred on September 12 when Maoko, a clearin…

Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 10:16hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe reintroduces black rhino in Gonarezhou

GONAREZHOU National Park has reintroduced the black rhino species, seven years after it became extinct.The last original black rhino population in Gonarezhou was seen in the 1940s, presumably due to over-hunting and poaching activities.A r…

Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

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 only 1 in 10  rhino poachings resulted in convictions. A total of 1028 …

Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 09:54hrs | 2 | by Louzel Lombard Steyn

Zimbabwean man arrested in SA over rhino horns

A Zimbabwean man, Onward Muchangowa, and two South Africans were arrested in the neighbouring country after they were found in possession of two rhino horns.Muchangowa and the two brothers, Deon and Niklaas van Deventer, who are accused of…

Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 06:57hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

$3 million rhino horns missing at ZimParks

Fifty-six rhino horns worth US$3 million vanished from Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority stores in Harare, a board of inquiry has found.The board of inquiry wants former ZimParks Director-General Mr Edson Chidziya to account…

Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

South African arrested in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park on poaching charge

A South African, Pieter Jansen van Rensberg, has been arrested on a charge of poaching inside the protected buffer zone of the Mozambique's Parque Nacional de Limpopo (PNL), which abuts the Kruger National Park. Also held were his wife, an…

Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Don Pinnock Environmental journalist

Africa rhino poaching - film by UNTV and CITES

Johannesburg - Flies buzz around a hulking pile of flesh and muscle that lies rotting in the Kruger National Park with its eyes gouged out and scimitar-like horns hacked off in the opening scenes of a shocking new documentary on rhino poac…

Published: 22 Jun 2012 at 04:02hrs | 1 | by Reuters

Zimbabwean minister fingered in Rhino horn trade

LOCAL Government, Rural and Urban Development Deputy Minister Cecil Zvidzai has been named in a case in which three men were arrested in possession of two rhino horns worth US$120 000 last week, state media reported.Police recovered the ho…

Published: 11 Jan 2012 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

2 rhino dealers sentenced in Zimbabwe

2 business associates who were arrested after they were found in possession of 2 rhino horns worth $120 000 recently appeared in court charged with possession of specially protected animals and products. Pellagia Margoli and Prince Chitiza…

Published: 28 Oct 2011 at 06:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

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 and collaborative efforts are made to sal…

Published: 24 Sep 2011 at 13:14hrs | | by Francis Nhema

Ten rhino poachers nabbed in Zimbabwe

TEN men have been arrested in Harare for poaching ivory and rhino, police spokesperson Oliver Mandipaka. said yesterday.The suspects, including four former soldiers and four farmers, were arrested in two separate operations and were appare…

Published: 22 Jul 2011 at 11:13hrs | | by Ndou Paul

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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