by Adam Cruise | May 31, 2021 | News
By The Herald Two Harare man have appeared in court after they were caught in possession of 22,88 kilogrammes of ivory worth $326 726 without a licence. Richard Jocho and Tapiwashe Hove were not asked to plead charged of contravening the Parks and Wildlife Act...
by Adam Cruise | May 6, 2021 | News
By Ray Ndlovu – Bloomberg via Aljazeera Zimbabwe is considering the mass killing of elephants, known as culling, for the first time since 1988 to reduce the 100,000 strong population of the animals. The government of Zimbabwe, which has the world’s...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 27, 2021 | News
By Robert Tapfumaneyi, New Zimbabwe The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has called on government to rescind its decision to open the country to trophy hunters with over 500 elephants to be placed under its hunting quota. The lobby group has advised the...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 21, 2021 | News
By GODFREY MARAWANYIKA – Business Day Harare — The cash-strapped Zimbabwean government plans to sell the right to shoot as many as 500 elephants for as much as $70,000 (R1m) per animal to help fund the upkeep of its national parks. The hunting season, which...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 15, 2021 | Commentary
By Stephen Tsoroti – New Zimbabwe The rickety yellow Toyota van screeched to a stop. The driver, Collen Sibanda, a dread-locked, soft spoken man in his mid-thirties, announced, “Gentleman and Lady, this is it. My vehicle cannot go beyond the river.”...
