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News24
April 22, 2018
The elephant was killed on April 12 by a hunter and his client in a hunting area just outside Gonarezhou National Park, where another collared bull elephant was shot in similar circumstances on March 7. 'Significant blow'. A national parks ranger who was monitoring the hunt has been suspended and theÃâà...
Zimbabwe Independent
April 21, 2018
You ought to have visited the enchanted and breathtaking World Heritage site of the Matopos National Park with its balancing rocks and wild life by now. The paintings ... This region is the only one in my considered view, which has the ethnic diversity which represents Zimbabwe in microcosm. Peopled byÃâà...
Eyewitness News
April 21, 2018
It says one of its collared bull elephants was shot by a hunter and his client outside Gonarezhou National Park on 12 April. Just over a month ago, another collared elephant was shot by a hunter and his Russian client, also outside Gonarezhou. It's not illegal to shoot a collared animal but conservationistsÃâà...
Business Day
April 20, 2018
Though new rooms are being built, Stutchbury predicts a shortage of beds during high season in Victoria Falls, with increasing numbers of foreign visitors travelling on to the nearby national parks. Bringing in almost $1bn of foreign revenue, tourism is a quick win in helping to revive the moribund economy,Ãâà...
News24
April 19, 2018
"Following a tornado, a tree fell on to a group" of Nigerian students staying in Bouba Ndjida national park, regional governor Jean Abate Edi'i said. Sixteen students were also injured and taken to Garoua, the capital of the Northern Region. The group of 50 students and six staff were on a school trip,Ãâà...
New York Times
April 19, 2018
Mr. Brebner, a genial ex-cattle farmer whose grandfather settled in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, at the turn of the 20th century, was leading me through Matobo National Park, a 163-square-mile wilderness 20 miles south of Bulawayo. Formed some three billion years ago, when magma buried deep beneathÃâà...
Times LIVE
April 13, 2018
The headline on the Zimbabwe Herald could not have made it clearer: “Police tighten noose on Grace Mugabe.” The newspaper, for 37 years the ... The first reported case of this was in 2013 when a single massacre of over 100 elephants happened at Hwange National Park. Since then it has become aÃâà...
The Herald
March 30, 2018
For those who want to enjoy a cool Easter Holiday, Ngezi National Park could be the place to be. I was there last year and found myself enjoying the serenity. With self-catering lodges run by National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, the recreational park in the heart of Mhondoro, is the placeÃâà...
Business Day
March 30, 2018
The Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said they have given the police relevant documents linking Mugabe to the poaching rings. Tinashe Farawo, the spokesperson for the parks said their documents showed that she had intended to ship the ivory to the Middle East, AmericaÃâà...
Zw News Zimbabwe
March 29, 2018
Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority says they have given the police relevant documents linking former First Lady Grace Mugabe to the poaching of protected animals in the country. Parks spokesperson, Tinashe Farawo, told VOA Studio 7 that the police would use the documentsÃâà...
The Australian Financial Review
March 28, 2018
Poaching trophies recovered from traffickers are stored in a warehouse at Zimbabwe National Parks headquarters in Harare. Adrian ... A week ago Zimbabwean police announced they had arrested two men for ivory smuggling and begun an investigation into allegations former first lady Grace Mugabe wasÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 28, 2018
Save $572 per cabin on CroisiEurope's new land-and-cruise journey to national parks and rivers in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The deal: ... Excursions include a full-day safari in Chobe National Park, a visit to a Namibian village and an exploration of the Gache Gache River.
RFI
March 28, 2018
A magnificent elephant bull has been shot dead by a Russian hunter in south-eastern Zimbabwe, just outside a national park, even though the animal was ... It is alleged that national parks officers were put under pressure to sign export permits for the ivory at the request of officials from Mugabe's office andÃâà...
VOA Zimbabwe
March 27, 2018
FILE - A game ranger stands next to a rotting elephant carcass poisoned by poachers with cyanide in Hwange National Park in Zimbabawe, Sept. ... Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority says they have given the police relevant documents linking former First Lady Grace Mugabe toÃâà...
Sierra Magazine
March 12, 2018
On a recent, gloomy winter night at the Painted Dog Conservancy in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, Rocket, the matriarch of one of the strongest packs of African Wild dogs in the country, succumbed to rabies; she was the last of her kin to do so, after the preventable disease killed her family earlier inÃâà...
One Green Planet
March 12, 2018
A petition on Care2 has been launched demanding that the Zimbabwean government intervene and stop allowing heartless trophy hunters to kill endangered animals around Hwange National Park. This is where Walter Palmer paid $50,000 to brutally end Cecil's life without even actually “hunting.
The Keene Sentinel
March 11, 2018
An elephant is seen in the Gonarezhou National Park in southeast Zimbabwe. The U.S. is opening the door to allowing elephant ... The service determined the killing of African elephant trophy animals in Zimbabwe “will enhance the survival of the African elephant.” After an outcry from both Democrats andÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 11, 2018
NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK, Kenya (AP) — On the outskirts of a sprawling reserve of Kenyan grasslands where endangered animals roam wild, U.S. Secretary of ... personally last year to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from lifting the Obama-era ban on tusks imported from Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Chicago Tribune
March 10, 2018
An elephant is seen in the Gonarezhou National Park, southeast Zimbabwe, on Sept. 2, 2015. The U.S. is opening the door to ... In Zambia and Zimbabwe, the agency was not convinced that the governments' policies served the purpose of conserving elephants. So Americans who wanted to shoot anÃâà...
Independent Online
March 9, 2018
South African tourists and other international visitors to Zimbabwe are preferring to rope in some tour guides from Cape Town and Johannesburg. ... Prime destinations for South African and other international tourists in Zimbabwe, include Victoria Falls, Hwange and Gonarezhou National Parks as well asÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 4, 2018
The book offers the most detailed account since July 2015, when Bloomington dentist Walter Palmer killed the prized lion in Zimbabwe. ... and kill Cecil, ruling that the expedition leader didn't do anything wrong in the killing of the lion on a neighboring farm just outside its protected Hwange National Park.
The Guardian
March 2, 2018
Zimbabwe was once the place to go to find the true wilderness of southern Africa, and in the last few years that has again become true. From Victoria Falls the drive to Hwange national park takes four hours, past farms and villages, and monkeys and goats crowding the road. Hwange is vast, 5,657 squareÃâà...
NewsDay
December 31, 1999
Out of the country's top 10 major tourism destinations, Victoria Falls is ranked first followed by Great Zimbabwe, Mana Pools, Gonarezhou National Park, Eastern Highlands, Matobo National Park, Kariba Dam, Chinhoyi Caves Recreational Park, Hwange National Park and Matusadonha National Park.
The Sydney Morning Herald
December 31, 1999
Grace Mugabe, who wielded significant power in Zimbabwean politics until Robert Mugabe, her husband, was ousted in a soft coup last November, was named ... A Zimbabwe National Parks official inspecting the country's ivory stockpile at the Zimbabwe National Parks Headquarters in Harare, Zimbabwe.
WLWT Cincinnati
December 31, 1999
When Cecil the lion was killed outside of a national park in Zimbabwe in 2015, it sparked worldwide ire and months of mourning and attention. Cecil, a large black-maned lion, was a protected animal and his death at the hands of an American dentist on a hunting trip was analyzed from every possible angleÃâà...
Press Herald
December 31, 1999
A herd of elephants travels through Tsavo East National Park in Kenya in 2010. The Trump administration is again allowing Americans to import the body parts of African elephants shot for sport, despite presidential tweets last year decrying the practice as a "horror show." Associated Press/Karel Prinsloo.
ABC News
December 31, 1999
Cecil the Lion was allegedly baited with an elephant carcass, drawing him out of a protected national park and into the crosshairs of a Minnesota trophy hunter perched in a tree stand nearby, according to ... Cecil the Lion rests near Kennedy One Water Point in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, Nov.
KCRA Sacramento
December 31, 1999
When Cecil the lion was killed outside of a national park in Zimbabwe in 2015, it sparked worldwide ire and months of mourning and attention. Cecil, a large black-maned lion, was a protected animal and his death at the hands of an American dentist on a hunting trip was analyzed from every possible angleÃâà...
Kansas City Star
December 31, 1999
New details have emerged that Cecil the Lion's killers lured him out of a protected park in Zimbabwe with an elephant carcass and people are ... published in an upcoming book, Cecil was allegedly lured out of Hwange National Park in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe with an elephant carcass, near whereÃâà...
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