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Five African Nations Sign Up for Conservation Zone the Size of California
Posted by Leon Marshall of Environmental Journalist, News Watch South African Contributor on August 29, 2011 Five southern African countries have signed into place the region’s biggest and most ambitious transfrontier conservation project yet. It covers a sparsely populated region of 444,000 square kilometers (171,429 square miles; slightly larger than California) that comprises some of the most spectacular scenery on the continent.
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A serious poaching upsurge in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya, prompted Africa’s top rhino experts to meet to assess the status of the horned pachyderms across the continent and to identify strategies to combat the crisis.
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By Leon Marshall Johannesburg, South Africa–Rampant rhino poaching is casting a dark shadow over the pride of southern Africa’s ambitious transfrontier-park program. Rhino killers are ruthlessly exploiting the open international boundary running through what is known as the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park to carry out their dirty work. Poachers typically down a rhino in South…
The bull elephant of Musango was well known to visitors to a wildlife sanctuary on the shore of Lake Kariba in northern Zimbabwe because of his apparent ease in the company of humans. An icon of the country’s conservation community, the elephant was much photographed and even painted by a well-known local artist. Tourists were thrilled by…
Asian demand for horns is driving a surge in rhino poaching, especially in South Africa and Zimbabwe, according to data analyzed by TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). “The trade is made worse by increasingly sophisticated poachers, who now are using veterinary drugs, poison, cross…
Rhinos are falling to poachers at the rate of two to three per week in some areas as Asian demand for their horns escalates, according to a report to the 58th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Standing Committee this week in Geneva. Photo of white rhino poached for horn…
CRIE DE COEUR By Alexandra Fuller If it was Robert Mugabe’s intention to organize hell on Earth, he has succeeded. It’s December in Zimbabwe, and that means the rains are frequent and the sun is at its hottest. The harvest–predicted to be ridiculously inadequate–is half a year away. Electricity is sporadic. No garbage has been…
