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Zim’s wildlife players siphon millions Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:29 By Tafadzwa Chiremba MAJOR players in Zimbabwe’s wildlife industry, with a million hectares of conservancy estates distributed among only a handful of them, are reportedly prejudicing the country out of millions of United States dollars by under-declaring their hunting proceeds while siphoning huge sums into …
US Internet Executive Under Fire For Killing An Elephant In Zimbabwe http://www.voanews.com Following the posting of a video showing Bob Parsons shooting a “problem” elephant, animal rights activists quickly launched a campaign to boycott his Web domain name-hosting business, GoDaddy.com Sandra Nyaira | Washington 01 April 2011 Competing US domain name providers were offering promotions encouraging potential customers …
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Africa’s rhinos face worst poaching crisis in decades http://www.iucn.org/?uNewsID=7165 25 March 2011 Well-equipped, sophisticated organized crime syndicates have killed more than 800 African rhinos in the past three years – just for their horns. With the most serious poaching upsurge in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya, Africa’s top rhino experts recently met in South Africa to assess the …
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Wildlife land reform policy will have huge impact on tourism http://www.swradioafrica.com By Tichaona Sibanda9 March 2011 A leading wildlife expert in Zimbabwe has warned that government’s push to implement the controversial wildlife based land reform will have ‘a huge’ impact on tourism. Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force told SW Radio Africa on Wednesday that …
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Zimbabwe land reforms target wildlife reserves http://news.yahoo.com AFP/File – Wed Mar 9, 5:55 am ET HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwean authorities will force the country’s predominantly white wildlife park owners to join with black partners in a new round of controversial land reforms, state media said on Wednesday. “Government is now implementing the wildlife-based land reform policy after five …
Zim auctions elephants, leopards http://www.zimonline.co.za by Tobias Manyuchi Friday 04 March 2011 HARARE – Zimbabwean wildlife authorities will today auction hunting packages for big game including elephants, lions and leopards with dozens of local and foreign hunters expected to take part in the auction. The packages known as hunting camps consist of animal species packaged into bags to …
Africa Hunting : Zimbabwe: Non-Trophy Elephant Permits Within National Parks – Primarily Hwange, on 2011/2/23 12:15:45 (321 reads) http://huntnetwork.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6090 Some confusion and concern has been raised about whether the permits issued by National Parks to hunt non-trophy elephant within Hwange and oTher National Parks, are legal. I would like to shed a little …
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Lions wreck havoc in Zimbabwe’s western district http://english.people.com.cn 19:21, February 15, 2011 Lions have wrecked havoc in Hwange, a district in western Zimbabwe about 800 km from the country’s capital Harare, killing at least 42 cattle and over 25 goats over the past month, local media reported. The villagers got affected mainly under Chief Mvuthu …
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Africa Hunting : Zimbabwe: Wildlife Players Siphon Millions on 2011/2/14 14:59:10 (171 reads) MAJOR players in Zimbabwe’s wildlife industry, with a million hectares of conservancy estates distributed among only a handful of them, are reportedly prejudicing the country out of millions of United States dollars by under-declaring their hunting proceeds while siphoning huge sums into off-shore accounts. …
Indigenisation in its present form is shameful legalized looting By Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, Policy Analyst, London 06/01/11 Of all public policies adopted in post-independent Zimbabwe, indigenization as presently formulated is the most harmful, partisan and counter-productive of them all. It is very regrettable that selfish political expediency and greed rather than sound economic principles are …
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