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Zimparks tracks lion spotted In Chegutu
A lion has been spotted roaming along Chakari Road in Chegutu, triggering widespread alarm among residents and prompting swift action from the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimPark...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 12:25hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Zimparks official collapses and dies during Bulawayo marathon
The Cimas Health Group has expressed regret and sadness over the unexpected death of Norman Mahla (40), a Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks) member, who collapsed during the Cimas ...Published: 20 Nov 2023 at 10:43hrs | 17 | by Agencies
Zimparks to waiver entry for school children
HWANGE West Member of Parliament Mr Godfrey Dube has implored the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) to waiver entry fees into the Victoria Falls Rainforest for school childre...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Jealous man plants ivory in ex-wife's toilet
A PLOT by a jealous Guruve man to get his ex-wife and her boyfriend imprisoned by planting ivory on her hit a snag after he was arrested for possession of ivory.Fisher Mupini tried to get his ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive python found stashed in vehicle
KWEKWE Central Business District was Tuesday brought to a standstill after a huge live python was found stashed in a dumped Toyota Wish vehicle in a suspected case of rituals gone wrong.Police...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jumbo attack: 74-year-old turns hero
A 74-YEAR-OLD villager from Mabale in Hwange who was attacked by an elephant which fractured his right leg turned hero of his own story after he dragged himself on his buttocks for eight hours until h...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Poacher jailed 9 years
FIVE pairs of ivory landed a Mushumbi man in jail after he was given a mandatory 9year sentence by Guruve magistrate Geraldine Mutsotso....Published: 25 May 2021 at 20:38hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZimParks raises concern over surge in human-wildlife conflicts
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has attributed the surge in human-wildlife conflicts to overpopulation and encroachment of human settlements into conservancies....Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Elephants on rampage in Beitbridge
Elephants have been destroying crops in Beitbridge in the last two weeks, especially along the Shashe River on the Botswana border and the Limpopo on the South African border with the animals reported...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gold wars turn nasty
A NASTY fight for mining rights has erupted over gold mining claims in Umfurudzi Game Park where violence is said to be the order of the day between machetewielding Zanu-PF youths from rival camps....Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma takes pangolin fight to High Court
A Binga inyanga serving nine years in prison for illegal possession of 400 grammes of pangolin scales has approached the High Court challenging his sentence. Damason Mutale (39) of Chininga vi...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pair arrested for killing a marauding lion
TWO Tsholotsho men have been arrested for killing a lioness which was part of a pride that preyed on their livestock and allegedly killed over 200 livestock in a space of two months.The pair a...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sangoma denied bail for possessing baboon skulls
A SUSPECTED inyanga from Dete in Matabeleland North was found in unlawful possession of several baboon skulls, raw ivory, python and lion skins and 16 scales of pangolin all valued at $30 000. ...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hyena snatches, kills boy (6)
TERROR has engulfed Buhera after an aggressive hyena snatched a six-year-old boy from his parents' doorstep, viciously killed him and dropped off his mutilated skeleton in a nearby riverbed in the mid...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Truck crashes into office
A Zambian based driver escaped death when he crashed into the Chinhoyi caves office last Friday after he failed to negotiate a curve.The unidentified driver was said to have been speeding when...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lions terrorise villagers
Villagers here are living in constant fear of marauding lions that wandered off the Save Conservancy, and have been unable to go back into the vast animal sanctuary after they were cut off by the floo...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 14:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to translocate 2 000 wild animals to Mozambique
Zimbabwe has approved the translocation of 2 000 wild animals from Save Valley Conservancy in the Lowveld to a park in Mozambique as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen co-operation in the Great Lim...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 07:32hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Harare pair earns 18 years for selling one pangolin
Two Harare men - Noel Holman (55) and Tendai Musatyira (25) will spend the next nine years in jail after being convicted of possessing a pangolin valued at $5 000.The pair has since filed an a...Published: 21 May 2015 at 10:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Lions wreaks havoc eTsholotsho
TSHOLOTSHO villagers in Sipepa area are living in fear of five stray lions who are wrecking havoc and have reportedly devoured a cow.Sipepa village herdman Norman Ncube said the pride of...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 19:48hrs | 5 | by Makhosi Sibanda
'Poison the fish so that parks officials die'
BINGA South Member of the House of Assembly Gabuza Joel Gabbuza (MDC-T) has made a shocking call to fishermen in his constituency to poison their fish in order to KILL Zimbabwe National Parks and Wild...Published: 18 Jul 2014 at 06:08hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Zimparks officials hunt escaped lion in Harare
Zimparks has issued a warning to Harare residents after a male adult lion escaped from Lion and Cheetah Park on Friday mo...Published: 29 Mar 2014 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Poachers kill two rhinos at Matopos National Park
TWO rhinos at Matopos National Park were discovered killed with their horns hacked off by suspected poachers as renewed attacks against the endangered species sparked outrage from environmentalists st...Published: 10 Nov 2013 at 02:52hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Rights groups condemn Tsholotsho villagers' torture
HUMAN rights and civil society organisations yesterday called for the prosecution of Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers who allegedly tortured Tsholotsho villagers in ...Published: 24 Oct 2013 at 02:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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