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Impala hunting man jailed 6 months
A 41-year-old man was arrested for illegally hunting impalas without proper authorization.On August 30, 2024, at around 7:00 PM, game scouts spotted Aram Sibanda and his accomplices leaving Ba...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 14:46hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe accused of blocking nurses from taking jobs abroad
Struggling to survive on her meagre salary, Zimbabwean nurse Jane decided to start a new life abroad but, one year after landing a job in Britain, she is still waiting to pack her bags.Jane is...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:59hrs | 11 | 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 | 12 | by Staff reporter
Madinda wants to produce a typical Bosso player
EXCITING times for Highlanders FC are coming. This was the bold declaration by club legend Madinda Ndlovu during an interview with Sunday News last week.The former Zimbabwe international and c...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Cleopas Chidodo profusely apologises to Grace Mugabe
CIVIL Aviation Authority (CAAZ) Security Manager Cleopas Chidodo has accused Al Jazeera journalists of drugging and coercing him to lie about former First Lady Grace Mugabe's involvement in ivory smug...Published: 04 May 2023 at 20:07hrs | 9 | 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 Nove...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:01hrs | | 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 | 1 | 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 | 12 | by Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg
PSL coaches ready to rumble
FOR the country's flagship sport - football - the coronavirus-induced break has been a journey in the wilderness.And for Premiership coaches it is now 16 months without sitting in the dugout....Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
International organizations urge Africa to oppose EU ivory trade ban bid
"The European Commission's proposed ban on international trade in ivory will be a disaster for those African communities who rely on wildlife for food and job security" according to a joint statement ...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 17:33hrs | 12 | by Emmanuel Koro
5 poachers gunned down
FIVE poachers were gunned down by Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers in 10 incidents of armed confrontation in national parks this year amid an intensifying crackdown ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to the heads of state of SADC nations
More than business as usual needed to save wildlife and people from covid-19 destructionYOUR EXCELLENCIES:We are facing an unprecedented wildlife conservation crisis. With COVID-19 imp...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:33hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro
Mnangagwa threatens CITES pull-out
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe is contemplating pulling out of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to fully benefit from its conservation...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana proposes hunting and trade as elephant population declines.
The results of the recent and most extensive elephant population survey of Botswana estimates the country’s population at 126,000 elephants, a further decline from 131,600 reporte...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 10:55hrs | 1 | by Dr Louise de Waal
Kirsty Coventry has not resigned from ministry
The Minister of Youth, Arts and Sports Kirty Coventry has not resigned from the ministry as alleged by social media on Thursday, government deputy spokesperson Energy Mutodi has revealed.On Th...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 13:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 1 | 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 | | by Janine Avery
Bulawayo squatters pin hopes on Mnangagwa
SQUATTERS in Bulawayo have said that they have faith that the new Government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa will provide decent accommodation for them.Lack of accommodation has seen a num...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Simiso Mlevu
Sound policies can win it for MDC Alliance
The MDC Alliance is showing dangerous traits of continuously proposing a welfare State and doing so without the consideration that the double entry of a welfare society is the taxpayers' burden. There...Published: 02 May 2018 at 07:58hrs | | by Brian Sedze
'Investors should not expect much from Mnangagwa'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's "dead bureaucracy" could stifle his vision and economic resuscitation programmes, opposition MDC-T national executive member Tapiwa Mashakada has said.Mashakada,...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
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 | | 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 | | by Keith Somerville, University of Kent
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 | 1 | by Louzel Lombard Steyn
Big cats worldwide threatened by SA lion bone trade - EIA
Asian demand for tiger wine and other products is creating a crisis for big cats across the world, according to a study just released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Titled Th...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 15:33hrs | | by Don Pinnock Environmental journalist
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, De...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 06:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Villagers not benefiting from their natural resources
Villagers in Matabeleland regions have complained that 37 years after independence they were still not benefiting from natural resources close to them as people from outside the region descend into th...Published: 30 May 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Former farm workers torment farm owner, demand car or $50 000
Two former farm workers at Holly Lodge Farm in Umguza allegedly forcefully stayed at the farm and demanded money from the farm owner, threatening to assault him before they demanded his car or $50 000...Published: 20 May 2017 at 11:51hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Rescued elephant calf adopted
An orphaned baby elephant has been fully accepted into a semi-wild elephant herd at Camp Jabulani outside Hoedspruit in a rare success story. The baby elephant, Timisa, which means courageous ...Published: 18 May 2017 at 10:36hrs | 11 | by Melissa Reitz
Poaching and budget crises spur dehorning move in Africa's 'rhino conservation cradle'
IT would have been unthinkable just a few years ago that rhinos would be dehorned for their own protection in a park as large and famous as the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal.The 96&n...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 17:38hrs | 2 | by Tony Carnie
Timbavati Reserve plan to hunt a super tusker may be a bridge to far
Private game reserves with open fences to Kruger Park have applied for permission to shoot 34 elephants, among them an iconic trophy bull, as well as 5 444 other animals, including rhinos, lions, leop...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 12:14hrs | 1 | by Don Pinnock, Environmental journalist
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 Nat...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 11:09hrs | | by Don Pinnock Environmental journalist
Vultures face extinction as betting outlets sprout
THE mushrooming of sports betting outlets has given rise to a demand for a concoction of vulture body parts used as luck charms, a factor which might result in the extinction of the carnivorous bi...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elephant ambassador Charlie felled by poacher’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. ...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 15:30hrs | | by Don Pinnock
Mujuru, Biti union suffers stillbirth
The envisaged coalition between Zimbabwe People First led by former Vice President Joice Mujuru and People's Democratic Party fronted by Mr Tendai Biti has suffered a stillbirth with senior offici...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
DO or Die: deciding the pangolin's fate at COP17
As CITES COP17 gets underway the eyes of the conservation world are focused on Johannesburg, where the global wildlife conference is taking place. Running from 24 September to 5 October, with 181 coun...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 09:11hrs | | by Hazel Friedman
Sharon's time with Zimbabwe's Presidential Elephants
Sharon Pincott's third book Elephant Dawn has recently hit the shelves. "Every now and then a book comes along that breaks through the wallpaper of my own life and delivers its message intrave...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 11:16hrs | 3 | by Agencies
Poachers kill 26 elephants in Chobe National Park
At least 26 elephants, their faces hacked off and their tusks removed, lay in congealing blood on Botswana's Chobe National Park floodplain. Poachers had killed them within sight of a Wilderness Safar...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 11:42hrs | | by Don Pinnock
Can Gwekwerere do it again, 10 years on?
ON the 10th anniversary of that mass player exodus from Dynamos, which left the Glamour Boys paralysed and resembling a stricken Titanic about to sink, it is ironic that the footballer - whose pricele...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Robson Sharuko
Biti's lieutenants joins Mujuru yet he claims to be ready to join hands with her
Senior MDC-T official Job Sikhala has claimed that while the People's democratic Party leader Tendai Biti bragged that he was ready to join former Vice President Joice Mujuru in a coalition to fight a...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 05:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Why do White people look at Blacks in disgust and undermine their humanity?
There is not doubt that the recent social media posts by white supremacists referring to blacks people as animals and uneducated dirty mass are mere symptoms of a much entrenched phenomena of raci...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 07:25hrs | | by Julius Malema
Biti advised to rejoin hands with Tsvangirai
People's Democratic Party leader Tendai Biti has been urged to heed the calls by his former colleagues in the MDC-T to join hands with his former boss Morgan Tsvangirai and avoid connecting with the f...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Over 740 rhinos have been killed in SA this year
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says 749 rhino have been poached so far this year in South Africa, up from the same period last year where 716 were killed. The minister revealed the...Published: 01 Sep 2015 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe must not lose sleep over dead lion Cecil - Sikhala
The MDC-T senior member Job Sikhala has said Zimbabwe is facing serious challenges such that the citizens can not lose a sleep over the dead lion Cecil which was killed in Victoria Falls."...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 14:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Emergency as elephant poached
An Emergency was declared as the first elephant was poached on western border of Kruger National ParkEach day, In Africa, around 100 elephants die at the hands of poachers. Almost all the kil...Published: 27 Jul 2015 at 13:19hrs | | by Don Pinnock
Elephant killed 2km from workshop
Poachers in north-western Zimbabwe killed and sawed the tusks off an elephant just 2km away from where a workshop on elephant conservation and management had taken place, a conservation group rep...Published: 29 May 2015 at 05:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Matopo National Park fencing completed
Matopo Rhino Protection Initiative has completed the 52 kilometre fencing programme at Matapo National Park in Matabeleland South.This was confirmed by John Burton, Chairman of Matobo Rhin...Published: 27 Mar 2015 at 09:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
3 arrested over game products
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, through a joint operation with the Zimbabwe Republic Police, has recovered game products worth thousands of dollars hidden at two Harare houses, ...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fish poachers beady eyed
Lake Chivero - Illegal fishing can be hazardous in Zimbabwe, where poachers scan the banks for armed rangers and the water for crocodiles while they cast their rods.The country is in such a di...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 19:48hrs | | by AP
Sand poachers causing serious environmental degradation in Tsholotsho
Sand poachers and brick moulders are wreaking havoc in Tsholotsho causing serious environmental degradation with most parts of the Matabeleland North district slowly turning into gullies.Local...Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 15:19hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
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