Wildlife News

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has taken to court a company operated by the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Rusununguko Nkululeko demanding US$142 530 for chalets leased to the latter in 2018.

[IPS] Bulawayo, Zimbabwe -- Once a week a tonnage of fresh charcoal is dropped off at Sibangani Tshobe's rugged, pit-stop stall by a hired, battered old Bedford lorry. Small, makeshift trolleys - nicknamed Scania's - quickly cart off small loads and disappear into Old Pumula, the oldest suburb in the country's second-largest city of Bulawayo.

[AIM] Maputo -- The wide variety of initiatives crafted by the South Africa-based Peace Parks Foundation has not only contributed to reducing poaching in several Mozambican conservation areas, but has also boosted the livelihoods of thousands of people living in the surrounding areas.

[Nairobi News] Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has launched an annual elephant naming festival at the Amboseli National Park.

[Nation] Scarface, one of the most iconic and celebrated lions in Maasai Mara Game Reserve has died.

[Citizen] Scarface, one of the most iconic and celebrated lion in Maasai Mara Game Reserve has died.

[The Herald] Overpopulation of elephants and other surges in wildlife numbers is increasing the chances of human-animal contact and raises the chances that more people will be killed or injured by the animals, warns the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks).

[Monitor] The government on Thursday reopened Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary after 50 days of closure. The government through Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) on April 20, 2021, closed the sanctuary located in Nakitoma Sub-county, Nakasongola District, over unending fights between two parties managing the facility.

[Nation] Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) wants a private sanctuary to evict more than 3,500 residents who it says have allegedly declined to allow the construction of an electric fence in Mwatate, Taita Taveta County.

[Daily News] Elephant populations in Serengeti National Park has increased from 6,000 in 2014 to more than 7,000 in 2020, according to the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI).

[Nation] The killing of two elephants in Kalacha this week has once again shone the spotlight on rampant poaching in Marsabit County, which is threatening to wipe out wildlife in the region.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Raising hundreds of billions of dollars in new "nature" finance will achieve little unless current incentives for environmental destruction are removed, analysts say

[Citizen] Monduli -- African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) Received 30,000 Vaccine doses to protect it's livestock from peste des petits Ruminants (PPR) also known as sheep and goat plague Manyara Ranch.

[VOA] Nairobi -- Kenya's Wildlife Service says that for the first time in 21 years, not a single rhinoceros was poached in the country's national parks in 2020. To maintain the progress, it is conducting the first ever wildlife census and placing mobile container housing in parks for rangers.

[The Conversation Africa] The Earth's surface is splotched with 117 million lakes. Some are scarcely more than ponds, while others are so big they can be seen from space. At 395 miles long, 49 miles wide and just over 1 mile deep, Lake Baikal in Siberia is one of the world's largest and it's home to 2,500 species, including the Baikal seal - Earth's only species of freshwater seal.

[Daily News] A TOTAL of 33,386 poachers have been arrested in the past five years, thanks to the intensified anti-poaching campaign initiated by the National Anti-Poaching Task Force (NTAP).

[Namibian] A NAMIBIAN Police officer and a Namibian Defence Force (NDF) soldier are among 13 suspects who were nabbed in the last week in connection with wildlife-related crimes.

[RFI] Scientists studying endangered penguins in South Africa have devised a new way of assessing threats to their breeding colonies -- recording and analysing sound files of their daily chatter.

[The Conversation Africa] The Masai Mara ecosystem, in south-western Kenya, is home to an important elephant population of about 2,500 individuals.

[New Era] Four men, including a police officer and a soldier, are due to appear in the Ohangwena Magistrate's Court this morning after they were arrested for being in possession of eight rhino horns.

[Daily Trust] Determined to end the incidents of bird strikes in Nigeria's airspace, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has deployed birds/wildlife control equipment at the airports.

[Namibian] RECONNAISSANCE Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) announced the finding of a working petroleum system at its second drill well (6-1), which it says again confirms a working petroleum system in the Kavango Sedimentary Basin.

[AIM] Maputo -- The southern Mozambican province of Inhambane is losing about a thousand hectares of forest a year, mostly for the production of wood fuel, reports Monday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".

[RFI] Tracking ivory poachers in Africa takes skill, courage and lots of climate-unfriendly fuel, right? Perhaps not for much longer -- a Swedish company has developed solar-powered motorbikes to tackle illegal wildlife crime and lessen the climate burden.

[The Conversation Africa] When great white sharks disappeared from two well-known congregation areas on South Africa's coast recently, the possible reasons were hotly debated. The appearance of a pair of shark-eating killer whales in the area was one. Another was the decline in numbers of smaller shark species that great whites prey on.

[UCT] Dr Alberto Valenciano, a former researcher from the University of Cape Town (UCT), is the lead author on new research that has found the origin of some of the most emblematic groups of African carnivorous mammals: jackals.

[Nation] The widely held belief that sitatunga meat cures ulcers and gout has now returned to sound the death knell for the rare swamp-dwelling antelopes.

[Nation] In Mairo-inya village, Peter Kairu's grave is slowly being swallowed up by the earth as relatives wait for compensation from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) over three years since the 33-year-old trader was killed by a hippo. Mr Kairu was in the company of his friend Wambugu Mwangi when tragedy struck.

[Nation] Rampant human-wildlife conflict has adversely affected learning at Irkilunyeti Primary School in Merrueshi, Kajiado East sub-county.

[Namibian] THE executive director in the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Teofilus Nghitila, says Namibia is developing a vibrant biodiversity economy from ecosystems and their services to equitably benefit citizens, through the sustainable use of aquatic and terrestrial resources.