Environment

MUTARE - Timber worth a staggering US$5 million and over 8 000 hectares of land have been gutted by veld fires in separate incidents throughout the Manicaland Province, a top environmental official has said.
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Zimbabwe plans to send brain tissue samples from dead elephants to the United States to test for toxic micro-organisms blamed for hundreds of elephant deaths in neighbouring Botswana, the parks authority said.
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A headman in Chiredzi slapped Prosper Manyengeni with a fine of two goats after starting a veld fire that blazed through 20 hectares of parched grasslands, decimating pastures and sparse native woodlands, as the so-called fire season hots…
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MARANGE, Zimbabwe, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kuziwa Matongo's rainwater harvesting system may not look like much, but its impact is huge.
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By Nyasha Chingono Thousands of homes built on wetlands face demolition. The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has, for some time, raised the red flag over the growing environmental hazard posed by the illegal settlements.…
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By Helen Kadirire A lack of political will to deal with the preservation of water and wetlands has resulted in Harare City Council (HCC) losing millions of dollars in securing expensive water treatment chemicals, residents and…
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Government has received a major boost in efforts to curb poaching, with a South African company donating modern drones worth more than $150 000.
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The Environmental Management Agency is working on a law that will see deposits or levies being charged on plastic beverage bottles, an official has revealed.
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Zimbabwe has shipped 24 elephant calves to China, in a move that has angered animal rights groups who described the export as "extremely cruel".
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CHITUNGWIZA - Old ramshackle lorries that make a beeline from areas surrounding Chitanda and Masona villages in rural Seke into urban Chitungwiza, with loads of sand, give testimony of an environment under threat of massive degradation.
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