Critter News

JANUARY 28, 2010

Zambia's Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources is calling for a greater cooperation between her country's agencies in dealing with this serious issue. The worst areas of wildlife crime appear to be in rhino and elephant poaching. Tags: organized crime wildlife crime ivory africa zambia rhino elephants.

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2009

ZAMBIA Wildlife Authority (Zawa) yesterday arrested four people, including two police officers, in Kafue for trafficking in ivory and rhino horns worth more than K1 billion. 36 elephants? 36 elephants? Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa zambia trafficking elephants. That's a huge slaughter in my opinion.

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Trafficking Zambia Rhinos Elephants 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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Critter News

MARCH 22, 2010

Zambia and Tanzania proposed re-opening the trade, but the UN said no. Tags: organized crime ivory united nations poaching elephants.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2019

There are only two countries in Africa that are not covered by regional or a country guide, only by the overweight pan-African one: the DR Congo and Zambia. So, Lynx Edicions, publish Zambia next, you cannot go wrong with it. No one is visiting the first and it will remain so for a while at least. Which is ridiculous.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

An operation across five Africa countries over weekend, targeting wildlife crime has led to arrest of almost 60 people and seizure of one ton of illegal elephant ivory, Interpol has reported. Tags: wildlife crime ivory wildlife trafficking africa elephants. Just five days ago.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

White-chested Tinkerbird is one of Africa’s avian mysteries, known only from a single specimen collected in 1964 at Mayau in north-west Zambia, close to the borders of Angola and the DRC. Others, such as Yellow-fronted and Red-fronted extend into the savanna zone and are best located by staking out a fruiting tree.

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