Harare(ZimEye)Zimbabwe’s War veterans settled near the Humani Estates in Chiredzi District are using poisonous elements for poaching rhino horns from a nearby game reserve in a move to sustain them after failing to come up with meaningful yields since they invaded the farms in early 2000. A rhino in its natural habitat on the African [...]

TOKYO: The global illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, Britain-based wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC warns in a report released recently ahead of an international conservation meeting in March. To get ivory, the animals must be killed. Even though adult elephants with big tusks are the [...]