Investigation Launched As 11 Hippos Found Dead in Zimbabwe
A joint investigating team comprising department of national parks rangers and the police has been dispatched to Mlibizi in Binga after 11 hippos were reported dead. The cause of the death is yet to be established but 11 carcasses were recovered at different points in the Kavira forest and along Mlibizi River, near the mighty […]
Chinese Site Publishes First Image of ‘Zimbabwe Elephants’ in Concrete Enclosure
This is the grim concrete enclosure that’s now home for some of the latest batch of elephants shipped from Zimbabwe’s beautiful Hwange National Park to a zoo in China. China’s Shanghai Daily has published a black and white picture of what it says are two of six “African elephants” just arrived at Hangzhou Wildlife World […]
Export of Hyenas to China ‘Stopped At Zimbabwe Airport’
Animal inspectors in Zimbabwe have intercepted a shipment of 11 hyenas from Hwange National Park that were about to be exported to a safari park in China, sources in Hwange have told News24. Officials from the ZNSPCA apparently stopped the hyenas leaving on board an Air Zimbabwe plane for Johannesburg because they were allegedly “not […]
“Cecil the lion was yours, and you failed to protect him” – President Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe spoke publicly for the first time about Cecil the lion on Monday, suggesting that Zimbabwean citizens were to blame for the beloved animal’s death. “Cecil the lion was yours, and you failed to protect him,” Mugabe said in his annual speech on Heroes Day, the Washington Post reports. After the lion’s […]
US hunting tourist posts picture of herself with dead giraffe after Cecil the lion outrage
A big-game trophy collector from Idaho has been criticised by animal rights activists over online images of herself posed with the carcasses of a giraffe and other wildlife she killed during a recent guided hunt in South Africa. Sabrina Corgatelli, an accountant for Idaho State University, appeared on NBC’s Today show on Monday to defend […]
Cecil The Lion Projected Onto The Empire State Building In New York
Cecil the lion is honoured in New York as a second American tourist is accused of killing a lion on an illegal hunt. Cecil the lion has been projected onto the Empire State building to raise awareness about the plight of endangered animals. The lion, whose death at the hands of a US dentist last […]
Zimbabwe Has Banned The Hunting Of Lions And Elephants
WILDLIFE authorities have announced an immediate ban on the hunting of lions, leopards and elephants outside Hwange National Park in the wake of the widely condemned killing of iconic lion, Cecil early last month. Police have since arrested one Headman Sibanda, a safari operator in the Gwayi Conservancy, in a push to plug all the […]
Zimbabwe authorities on a man-hunt for second lion killer
Cecil was a major tourist attraction in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park Zimbabwe says it is seeking a second American over the illegal killing of a lion, as the outcry over the death of famed animal Cecil continues. The National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said a doctor from Pennsylvania, named as Jan Casimir Seski, killed […]
As the world mourned Cecil the lion, five of Kenya’s endangered elephants were slain
While the world mourned Cecil, the 13-year-old lion that was allegedly shot by an American hunter in Zimbabwe, an even more devastating poaching incident was quietly carried out in Kenya. Poachers killed five elephants in Tsavo West National Park on Monday night. The carcasses were recovered by rangers on Tuesday morning — what appeared to […]
