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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 i...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 07:01hrs | 434 | 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 sculptur...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:07hrs | 499 | 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 occurre...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 10:16hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
'Artificial ivory opens another way to end ban on natural ivory trade' says U.S. NGO
A United States-based NGO welcomed a BBC report this month that Austrian scientists have developed a new artificial ivory product, called Digory, that looks and feels like the real thing. The ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:41hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Koro
SADC loses iconic conservationist as WhatsApp gives hunting communities 'permanent' voice in the media
The director of Zimbabwe CAMPFIRE Association, Mr Charles Jonga's death on 6 May 2023, signaled SADC's loss of an important wildlife conservation voice in the media.In an interview this week f...Published: 08 May 2023 at 15:51hrs | 5 | by Emmanuel Koro
Harare doctor forges medical papers to help suspect skip bail
A medical doctor at Sally Mugabe hospital in Harare is in trouble after he allegedly forged medical affidavits claiming that a Chinese suspect arrested for illegal possession of rhino horns was sick....Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's once-off sale of ivory stockpiles acceptable
ZIMBABWE is desperately seeking international support to be allowed to sell its stockpile of ivory to raise funds for its conservation efforts.It is an age-old problem for the southern African...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to pull out of CITES?
Zimbabwe, which is sitting on more than 136 tonnes of ivory and rhino horns worth about US$600 million, is prepared to operate outside the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 29 | by Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg
SADC leadership ignores wildlife conservation as COVID-19 cripples tourism
The COVID-19 pandemic is clearly refusing to go away and is causing great damage in Africa — to both humankind and the tourism industry. This, in turn, is drastically reducing the income needed to c...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Emmanuel Koro
SADC silence on trade in wildlife embarrassing
Why does it take people in power seemingly forever to accomplish something good for the people they serve and the wildlife they look after? Are our leaders so concerned with taking care of the...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 18 | by Emmanuel Koro
Why movement to restore American democracy is needed
Wildlife-rich and climate change-vulnerable Sub-Saharan Africa has been following the political events unfolding in the United States with great interest. What happens in America still has worldwide c...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Emmanuel Koro
'Demand Arrest Of Chicken Thieves Not Wildlife Poachers' - Animal Rights Tell Africans
One of the most curious and harmful lessons that Western animal rights groups continue to teach African rural communities co-existing with wildlife and the African public, in general, is 'demand the a...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 12:54hrs | 8 | by Emmanuel Koro
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
Why SADC countries still 'oppose' rhino horn trade
SADC countries have individually decided not to get involved in the non-commercial international trade in rhino horn. This questionable decision has happened despite approval for such trade by the UN ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mnangagwa hailed for Cites pullout plan
President Mnangagwa's announcement that Zimbabwe plans to pull out of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (Cites) has triggered excitement in Geneva, Swit...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 14 | by Emmanuel Koro
'Europe ate all its animals,' says Mnangagwa
BARELY a week after President Emmerson Mnangagwa and European Union Ambassador Timo Alkonnen had a near nasty public spat over Zimbabwe's worsening human rights record, Mnangagwa has set himself on an...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa shows CITES the ‘middle finger’
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) can go to hang af...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 17:48hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
The new Zimdollar: What could go wrong?
ZIMBABWE last week made its interim currency, the RTGS dollar, the country's sole legal tender, drawing the curtains on a decade of United States dollar dominance. Harare was forced to abandon its own...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Ed Stoddard
Mnangagwa to donate animals to Angola
THE Government will donate an undisclosed number of wild animals to Angola to help the country rebuild its wildlife which was ravaged by decades of war, President Mnangagwa has said. Addressin...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa slams Cites 'dictatorship'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday called for free trade in wildlife products to ensure a positive impact on national economies adding that an ivory trade ban has resulted in the country having stockpiles ...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
ED full speech at AU - UN summit in Vic Falls
STATEMENTBYHIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE CDE E. D. MNANGAGWAATTHE INAUGURAL AFRICAN UNION-UNITED NATIONS WILDLIFE ECONOMY SUMMITVIC...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 12:56hrs | 10 | by President ED Mnangagwa
Godmother Queen Wezhira defiantly sits bare on Mthwakazi
In our culture, when the legendary flowery Eve sits bare and exhibits her rhino horn, the descendants of Adam have to look aside and scurry for cover! Conversely, this time it should be a different ba...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Muntukaziwa
Botswana Defence Forces foiled coup attempt against Masisi?
The Commander of Botswana Defence Force Lt. General Placid Segokgo last week deployed military assets including armoured tanks and personnel in key strategic in anticipation of a coup against Presiden...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Tuku a cultural icon, a world changer, a true superstar and legend
ICON. Superstar. Legend. Three words that have been used to describe departed Zimbabwe music icon Oliver Mtukudzi. Mtukudzi thoroughly deserved the accolade. His almost four-decades long music career ...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | 13 | by Methuseli Moyo
Zimbabwe police lay fresh charges on 7 Chinese nationals
POLICE have opened fresh charges of money laundering and theft of a motor vehicle against seven Chinese nationals who are being accused of possessing more than 20kg of rhino horn pieces with a combine...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
Founded on cruelty, fuelled by money
Are we about to see the end of one of South Africa's most infamous practices - Captive Lion Breeding (CLB) for hunting and trading of their parts? If Parliament adopts the recommendations of a hard-hi...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 11:56hrs | 2 | by Andreas Wilson-Späth
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 | 30 | 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 | 1 | by Janine Avery
Government says no to donkey abattoir
THE Government has vowed not to license the donkey abattoir in Bulawayo as slaughtering of the animals is unlawful in the country, an official said.Speaking at the Donkey Skin Trade Conference...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 16:02hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by Keith Somerville, University of Kent
Grace Mugabe sucked into ivory scam
A state-sanctioned investigation into a massive ivory and rhino horn trafficking scandal that prejudiced the foreign currency-starved nation of millions of United State dollars has sucked in former fi...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fuel tankers used for drugs, ivory, arms smuggling operations across Zimbabwe - South Africa
Modified tanker trucks are at the center of a new wave of drug smuggling into and through South Africa as well as movement of illegal arms and ivory from and out of Zimbabwe, a ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 08:49hrs | 8 | by Tapiwa Vhurundiya (Khuluma 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 onl...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 09:54hrs | 2 | by Louzel Lombard Steyn
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 | 71 | by Khuluma Afrika
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 | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean face murder charges in South Africa
SIX suspects, who include a Zimbabwean and six South Africans, have been arrested over the alleged murder of an elderly South African couple in the Mokopane area, south of Beitbridge, on August 19 thi...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:19hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman arrested at OR Tambo Airport
The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Dr Edna Molewa, has congratulated members of the Environmental Management Inspectorate, also known as the Green Scorpions, for their assistance in the arrest of ...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Duo nabbed over fake rhino horns
Two Harare men were arrested yesterday in Masvingo after they were allegedly found with two fake rhino horns which they intended to sell in Chiredzi.Sources close to investigations allege Emma...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
$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 ZimPark...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3 | by Tony Carnie
We can sell rhino horn says SA Environment Minister Edna Molewa
According to the Department of Environmental Affairs, the time has come to sell rhino horn. Speaking in a Parliamentary portfolio committee on Tuesday, Minister Edna Molewa said there had been a morit...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 20:13hrs | 1 | by Don Pinnock
Zuma's ally 'implicated' in rhino poaching documentary?
The investigative documentary, Al Jazeera Investigates - The Poachers Pipeline, aired on Al Jazeera on Sunday afternoon.Mahlobo appears to have been implicated in the rhino poaching exposé, w...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 15:46hrs | 14 | by Citizen
Western countries can go to hell - MDC-T
A senior MDC-T member and former Mines deputy minister Gift Chaminikire has broken rank with his party by saying Western countries should stop meddling in Zimbabwe's internal affairs.Chimaniki...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 07:23hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabwe ivory stockpiles continue to soar
THE suspension of Zimbabwe by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) to trade in ivory is impacting negatively on Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimPark...Published: 13 Dec 2015 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hunters hold African wildlife to ransom
The worlds wealthiest hunting organization, Safari Club International (SCI) and professional hunting groups, met behind closed doors with the South African Department of Environment (DEA) ...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Adam Cruise
SA government and US hunters plotting future for SA's wildlife
American hunters and SA's Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) are meeting behind closed doors at a resort near Polokwane today to plan the future use of SA's wildlife. The four day conference of...Published: 10 Nov 2015 at 06:48hrs | | by Don Pinnock
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