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Zim sitting on $100m ivory stockpile 4/3/2019 The Herald Walter Nyamukondiwa Mashonaland West Bureau Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) is sitting on a $100 million ivory stockpile, weighing at least 40 tonnes, amid concerns over the country’s growing elephant population and resultant conservation pressures. The stockpile has grown to more than 40 …
Botswana considers allowing big game hunting, culling elephants 22/2/2019 President Mokgweetsi Masisi The Herald GABORONE. – Botswana, home to almost a third of Africa’s elephants, is considering lifting a ban on big game hunting, to combat what the government says is growing conflict between humans and wildlife Conservationists estimate the southern African country has …
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Zim’s perfect theatre of the jungle 23/2/2019 The Herald Isdore Guvamombe UNDER the blistering heat, a breeding herd of elephants blocks the way and a cow nudges its calf under a huge baobab tree on the roadside. An irritated bull tells off a wandering calf in a no-nonsense mood, with a shriek but firm …
Quartet found with 96kg ivory 19/2/2019 The Chronicle Esinathy Sibanda, Chronicle Reporter FOUR suspected poachers were arrested at Cross Dete Business Centre in Hwange District and elephant tusks weighing 96 kilogrammes were recovered from them. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) rangers and the police who were conducting patrols along the Mabale-Hwange road …
Time to look outside Cites should ivory pitch fail again 18/2/2019 The Herald Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story Zimbabwe cannot be faulted for trying to make the Cites see reason, a commodity that apparently is now at a premium within the global watchdog for endangered animal species. Well, at least as far as noble requests …
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Ending Chiredzi human-wildlife conflict remains a pipe dream – NewsDay Zimbabwe 11/2/2019 The government needs to put mitigatory measures in place to resolve the human-wildlife conflict in Chiredzi, with residents adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park, the most affected after the barriers along the park, were vandalised. BY GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA This was revealed during a …
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Zim, 3 others seek lifting of ivory trade ban 11/2/2019 The Herald Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story Zimbabwe, together with Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, have applied again to Cites, the global watchdog for endangered animal species, to have a ban on the commercial trade of their registered stockpiles of ivory from the African elephant …
Zim, Zambia in joint wildlife conservation programme 31/1/2019 The Herald Zimbabwe and Zambia have launched a joint $5,5 million Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme (SWMP) to be implemented over a period of five years. The project, being implemented with the assistance of development partners, aims to reduce the pressure of hunting wildlife by promoting, under …
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CITES’ embarrassing failure to stop illegal rhino horn trade, poaching raises colonial questions 28/1/2019 The Chronicle Emmanuel Koro, CorrespondentTop Southern African conservationists unanimously say that UN Convention on International Trade In Endangered Wild Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES)’s 40-year-old international rhino horn trade ban has failed embarrassingly to stop both illegal International rhino …
Local conservationist selected for global programme – NewsDay Zimbabwe 25/1/2019 Local wildlife conservationist, Moreangels Mbizah has been selected as a TED Fellow, joining a class of 20 global change-makers invited to this year’s conference in Vancouver, Canada, in April. By Moses Mugugunyeki Moreangels Mbizah The TED Fellows programme brings together young innovators from around …
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