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Zimbabwe CIO's business network
Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) likely has a secret stream of money, The Sentry has found. Publicly availa...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 17:53hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
ED Pfeeee in UK hill Nehanda's head head home
The President of Zimbabweans His Excellence Cde Dr Emerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA will be gracing the Queen's land in October 2021. There is great excitement amongst Zimbabweans who are hoping to catch a ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:46hrs | 7 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
US to support Zimbabwe's trade in baby elephants
US zoos now plan to import baby elephants from Zimbabwe, undeterred by the international furore over their 2016 import of 18 wild elephants from Swaziland.The US Association of Zoos and Aquari...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:43hrs | 12 | by Melissa Reitz
Zimbabwe presidential ballot paper layout a cause for concern
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) expresses concern over the design and layout of the Presidential ballot paper which does not conform to provisions of the Electoral Regulations of zoos and...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 16:28hrs | | by ZESN
Captive cheetah breeding is reaching epidemic proportions in South Africa
An extremely worrying trend is emerging in South Africa, where cheetahs are bred on demand, taken away from their mothers to be hand-reared for cub petting, to become well-beh...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 10:25hrs | | by Louise de Waal
U.S. the biggest importer of endangered African wildlife trophies
The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump's recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Departmen...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 09:02hrs | 15 | by Adam Cruise
Confusion as Zimbabwe promises review of elephant exports amidst global condemnation
Three weeks after 31 young elephants were exported, presumedly to China, Zimbabw...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 10:37hrs | 5 | by Adam Cruise and Christina Russo
Elephant calves exported from Zimbabwe as China bans ivory trade
China has reportedly imported more than 30 wild caught elephant calves from Zimbabwe in a controversial if not cynical move which took place on the very day China banned the sale of ivory.31 w...Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 13:20hrs | 26 | by Christina Russo and Adam Cruise
'Stop smoking' plea as habit kills 50,000 South Africans every year
Smoking kills more than 50,000 people in South Africa each year, about a third of them before the age of 60, it was revealed on Tuesday as health experts and anti-smoking campaigners (Madiba Youth Org...Published: 30 May 2017 at 22:40hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Baby elephants from Zimbabwe headed for Chinese zoos!
Thirty seven baby elephants forcibly taken from their mothers in the wild in Hwange National Park are about to be flown to Chinese zoos, despite an international outcry against previous exports&...Published: 07 Nov 2016 at 12:29hrs | 3 | by Adam Cruise
Southern African Fight For Rhino
A Call to Action: This is our fight now!Join us on the 24th September, 2016, outside the Sandton Convention Centre (Johannesburg), corner of West Street and Alice Lane,The Founding Dir...Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 20:20hrs | | by saffr.co.za
IUCN calls on SA Government to end canned hunting
A motion to terminate the hunting and breeding of captive lions and other predators in South Africa has been approved by the IUCN World Conservation Congress currentl...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 22:54hrs | | by Melissa Reitz
Voices for African Wildlife statement on mass action to save Zimbabwe baby elephants
What is it going to take for government to heed our voice of protest against its continued and now habitual export of baby elephants to China? This is the question we are battling with as we prepare t...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 19:09hrs | | by Kenesias Dambakurima and Bongani Trevor Kumalo
Swaziland Elephant Export Ignores Alternatives
Controversial plans are progressing to export 18 elephants from Swaziland to US zoos, apparently without proper consideration of relocating them to other reserves in Swaziland."There is space ...Published: 27 Oct 2015 at 15:10hrs | | by Melissa Reitz
Zimbabwe baby elephants headed for Chinese circus
A grim fate likely awaits young elephants plucked from Zimbabwe's wild.Sources in Zimbabwe say that young elephants seized from their mothers in Hwange National Park months ago are about to be...Published: 01 Jul 2015 at 11:31hrs | | by Christina Russo
Hollywood star 007 in drive to save Zimbabwe elephants
HOLLYWOOD star and former James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan, has called on fans to protest the planned export of wild elephants from Zimbabwe to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China.Br...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's baby elephants sold to China
ANIMALS are getting stolen from Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park and ending up in China's zoos, according to The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force.The group says they first highlighted this iss...Published: 02 Dec 2014 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's baby elephants getting sold to China zoos: activists
Animals are getting stolen from Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, and are ending up in China's zoos according to The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force.The group says that they first highligh...Published: 28 Nov 2014 at 20:02hrs | | by Sapa
Lest they forget - Human Zoos
Human zoos (also called ethnological expositions or Negro Villages) were 19th- and 20th-century public exhibits of humans, usually in a so-called natural or primitive state. The displays often emphasi...Published: 29 Jan 2014 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Seven French tourists arrested for illegally entering the Zambezi National Park
SEVEN French tourists were on Monday arrested and released after paying $20 each for illegally entering the Zambezi National Park for a photographic safari.The seven, after being given an opp...Published: 13 Feb 2013 at 00:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
5 baby elephants destined for China released from Hwange holding facilities
Following extensive negotiations between the ZNSPCA and the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority we are pleased to announce the release of five elephant calves that were held in bomas wit...Published: 21 Jan 2013 at 17:46hrs | | by zimnspcahq
Elephant exports to China spark protests
The Zimbabwe government has come under renewed attack after it exported four elephants to China. Environmentalists say the future of the young elephants is bleak because they had been separate...Published: 28 Dec 2012 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black economic empowerment not a mistake, but an advantage
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over even after fighting a war.Peopl...Published: 29 Nov 2011 at 05:29hrs | | by Innocent Katsande
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