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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 | 435 | 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 | 900 | by Staff reporter
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 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
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
'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
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
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 | 32 | by Staff reporter
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 | 4 | 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
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 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
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
Mozambique to destroy seized ivory, rhino horn
Mozambique plans to destroy more than one tonne of confiscated ivory as well as 53 rhino horns to show its resolve in the fight against poaching, a New York-based conservation group said on Saturd...Published: 08 Jul 2015 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Animal rights activists complain over political interference in their activities
The Animal Rights organisation called Voice for Zimbabwe Wildlife has complained over some purported animal activists who mingle in the activities of protecting wildlife on political grounds in or...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Hwange National Park struggling to cope with exponential growth of elephants
Zimbabwe's largest wildlife park, Hwange National Park, is struggling to cope with the exponential growth of elephants which is driving up costs of running Africa's third largest park.Zimbabw...Published: 22 Dec 2014 at 07:11hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe defends sale of elephants
ZIMBABWE has defended the sale of live elephants saying the move was cleared by the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species (CITES), but the United States' opposition to the exports is...Published: 20 Dec 2014 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Al Jazeera's 101 East reveals Madagascar's illegal wildlife trade
Convicted smuggler Anson Wong is discovered still operating his multi-million dollar illegal business, having been helped by Madagascan presidential candidate's son Malaysia, 17 November ...Published: 20 Nov 2013 at 06:03hrs | | by Al Jazeera
Rhinoceros horns disappear at court
Police have launched investigations into a case in which four rhinoceros horns worth $250 000 kept as exhibits disappeared at the Beitbridge magistrates courts. Police officer commanding Beitbridge di...Published: 12 Feb 2013 at 19:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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 ...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...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 produ...Published: 28 Oct 2011 at 06:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parks Authority sitting on $10 million ivory
THE National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority is sitting on 44 tonnes of ivory worth US$10 million it cannot sell due to an indefinite ban on the sale of the commodity by the Convention on Inte...Published: 13 Oct 2011 at 05:05hrs | | by -
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 arr...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, includi...Published: 20 Jan 2011 at 03:23hrs | 1 | by Byo24NEWS
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