Wildlife

A helicopter herds thousands of impalas into an enclosure. A crane hoists sedated upside-down elephants into trailers. Hordes of rangers drive other animals into metal cages and a convoy of trucks starts a journey of about 700 kilometers…
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A Harare woman who together with a white Masvingo businessman were accused of illegally possessing 52 crocodile skins before the State withdrew charges against them has filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court to repossess…
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Two suspected poachers were shot dead in Chirundu by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers before a rifle and freshly poached ivory was recovered.
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Zimbabwe last week said if it is not permitted to sell off its 130 tons of ivory, estimated to be worth US$600 million, it may quit the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, CITES.
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In 1997 the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) mandated TRAFFIC to establish and maintain a robust system to monitor ivory trade, now known as the Elephant Trade and Information…
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Zimbabwe and Botswana say they are ill-equipped to deal with poachers without the money from ivory sales, especially because earnings from tourism have dwindled due to COVID—19 related travel restrictions since 2020.
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Zimbabwe has threatened to operate outside of CITES if their concerns are not given attention in threats which animal activists say would be akin to a fish trying to live out of water.
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Unlike in much of the world, where poachers have killed off the animals for their tusks, Zimbabwe's elephant population is growing at about five percent a year.
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A psychiatric patient is missing after he escaped from Ngomahuru Hospital and was later attacked by a crocodile at Tugwi River on Sunday.
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The fear of human and wildlife conflict is now high following revelations that Zimbabwe has exceeded its carrying capacity for elephants with an overpopulation ratio of 55 percent.
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