anti-poaching

POACHING – ZIMBABWE’S SHAME

The photographs on the following pages may be distressing to some people - especially animal lovers. they have been placed on these pages to show the brutality of the poacher:

Buck
Baby Elephant
Giraffe
Leopard
Wild Dog

Wildlife already suffering persecution from the poacher stands faced with an awful escalation of this illegal practice due primarily to inaction by law enforcement agents – little support by so called Wildlife agencies – Section 8 restricting or ceasing Wildlife protection and management practices – Commercial poacher’s “cashing in” and subsistence poaching for survival.

A further factor now adds to this catastrophe – drought. As the drought bites, so water bodies recede making the work of the poacher that much easier.

A question often posed is:
How many animals have been lost to the poacher?

The Answer
No one will ever know given the no go areas, management constraints and removal of complete carcasses.

What we can determine however are trends and possible losses from sound poaching statistics. For example one lowveld ranch has physically recovered 210 poached carcasses in 24 months. There is a minimum of a 100 such ranches (size and animal density), in Natural Regions IV and V alone, suggesting mortalities of 21,000 animals could have been sustained. Discussions with ranchers indicate this to be considered a conservative figure with real losses more likely to be double or even treble especially considering no account has been taken of small mammal losses.

THE ISSUE AT STAKE IS TO HALT THE SLAUGHTER

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	Poaching in Zimbabwe
POACHING – ZIMBABWE’S SHAME The photographs on the following pages may be distressing to some people - especially animal lovers. they have been placed on these pages to show the brutality of the poacher: Buck Baby Elephant Giraffe Leopard Wild Dog Wildlife already suffering persecution from the poacher stands faced with an awful escalation of this illegal practice due primarily to inaction by law enforcement agents – little support by so called Wildlife agencies – Section 8 restricting or ceasing Wildlife protection and management practices – Commercial poacher’s “cashing in” and subsistence poaching for survival. A further factor now adds to this catastrophe – drought. As the drought bites, so water bodies recede making the work of the poacher that much easier. A question often posed is: How many animals have been lost to the poacher? The Answer No one will ever know given the no go areas, management constraints and removal of complete carcasses. What we can determine however are trends and possible losses from sound poaching statistics. For example one lowveld ranch has physically recovered 210 poached carcasses in 24 months. There is a minimum of a 100 such ranches (size and animal density), in Natural Regions IV and V alone, suggesting mortalities of 21,000 animals could have been sustained. Discussions with ranchers indicate this to be considered a conservative figure with real losses more likely to be double or even treble especially considering no account has been taken of small mammal losses. THE ISSUE AT STAKE IS TO HALT THE SLAUGHTER Disclaimer Unless specifically stated that this message is a Commercial Farmers' Union communiqué, or that it is being issued or forwarded to you by the sender in an official CFU capacity, the opinions contained therein are private. Private messages also include those sent on behalf of any organisation not directly affiliated to the Union. The CFU does not accept any legal responsibility for private messages and opinions held by the sender and transmitted over its local area network to other CFU network users and/or to external addressees.
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