SPEECH BY WALLY HERBST - CHAIRMAN WILD LIFE PRODUCERS ASSN AGM 13TH JUNE 2002 - Harare Zimbabwe
WILDLIFE NOTICE BOARD - First Issue - 11 June 2002 - news from Zimbabwe
POACHING – ZIMBABWE’S SHAME
H here you will find information
and photographs of poached animals - showing the senseless killing that
is going on. These pictures may be disturbing to some people - especially
animal lovers.
Killing
Continues in Zimbabwe
By Karen Paolillo of the Turgwe Hippo Trust, Save Valley Conservancy,
in Zimbabwe.
An excerpt of her tellingly heartrending and personal letter.
"Zimbabwe's
Endangered Wildlife Is Being Slaughtered At An Alarming Rate"
International Rhino Foundation
The IRF has supported conservation efforts for both black and southern white rhino in Zimbabwe. This support has included provision of a helicopter with operating support. The helicopter has been used to facilitate: consolidation of rhino into the Intensive Protection Zones (IZPs) that have proven crucial to rhino survival; de-horning which is an integral part of the Zimbabwe rhino conservation strategy; and anti-poaching activity.
Poaching
on Farms in Zimbabwe
November 30, 2000 Article published in WILDAFRICA.NET by Dr. Graham
Child
The widespread irresponsible poaching of wildlife in Zimbabwe is at
present destroying the potential of the resource – killing animals and
decimating their essential habitats.
While the Government of Zimbabwe presses cites with plans to sell ivory annually, dramatic evidence is emerging of increased elephant poaching in the country, and a concerted effort by the authorities to cover-up the true scale of the problem.
Poaching
in Zimbabwe
There are two types of poachers in Zimbabwe, meat poachers and professional
ivory poachers. While meat poachers target animals they can sell the meat
of, ivory poachers are well organized professionals who kill elephant
and rhino to sell ivory to foreign markets.
