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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 | 264 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 136 | 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 | 1115 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 1570 | by Laiton Kandawire and Oliver Samboko

Zimbabwean man lives with 39 bullets in body

It's the sound of a gun that a villager from the Fairfield area of Somabhula heard until he fell unconscious when a magazine of bullets was wasted on him.About 55 bullets later, Brighton Ndlovu (50) was still alive after farm guards that a…

Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 22:26hrs | 12 | by Danisa Masuku

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 | 22 | by Thabo Kunene

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 | 1220 | by Siphambaniso Dube

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 | 811 | 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 | 4 | by Byo24NEWS

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