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		<title>Zanu PF power tussle chokes conservancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[POWER tussles between two rival Zanu PF factions are threatening the viability of a wildlife-rich conservancy in Marondera after the party’s government ministers failed to evict supporters who invaded the animal sanctuary this week, the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt. Authoritative sources told the Independent yesterday that Wildlife and Natural Resources minister Francis Nhema, Parks and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1128</link>
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		<title>Government tightens ivory trade controls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE government has ordered licenced domestic ivory traders to stop issuing Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) export documents after it emerged that some traders were using them to facilitate the smuggling of raw ivory. The announcement was made through the Cites Secretariat in Notification to the Parties No. 20010/024 of 16 August [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1126</link>
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		<title>Lions kill 5 people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marauding lions have wreaked havoc in Mashumbi Pools where they have mauled to death five people, including a hunter, and and have also killed scores of livestock, NewsDay has learnt. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority spokesperson Caroline Washaya-Moyo confirmed that the felines had become a menace, saying the authority had this year received reports of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1124</link>
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		<title>Zim to ban plastic shopping bags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ZIMBABWE has announced it is imposing a phased ban on plastic shopping bags, a minister said, “for causing pollution, killing wildlife, and using up precious resources of the earth.” Environment Minister Francis Nhema recently held a meeting with the large supermarket chains and representatives from the plastics industry to discuss the proposals. Read more: http://www.newzimbabwe.com/NEWS-3087-Zim+to+ban+plastic+shopping+bags/NEWS.aspx]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1122</link>
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		<title>African conservationists &#8216;shoot to kill poachers&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some conservation organisations in Africa are operating a shoot-to-kill policy against poachers, to protect endangered species, a study says. An academic from the University of Manchester told the BBC that private security firms and mercenaries were being used to train game rangers. Prof Rosaleen Duffy has researched the issue for 15 years for a book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1120</link>
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		<title>Developments at Gonarezhou hailed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zimbabwe has made tremendous infrastructural developments in the Gonarezhou National Park, setting the tone for the full rollout of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park with South Africa and Mozambique. Environment and Natural Resources Management Minister Francis Nhema said this on Saturday after touring some of the projects that are being rehabilitated at Chipinda Pools. Read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1118</link>
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		<title>Zimbabwe snare collector killed by buffalo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read more: http://nehandaradio.com/2010/08/14/renowned-wildlife-activist-killed-by-buffalo-in-charara/]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1116</link>
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		<title>Porous borders aid Rhino poachers – AfriForum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG &#8211; A South African civil rights group this week called on that country’s government to engage other nations, including Zimbabwe, in its on-going efforts to stop rhino poaching, cases of which are escalating by the day. Civil rights group AfriForum said early this week that the recent arrest of seven rhino poaching suspects from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1114</link>
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		<title>Tough Call for Gonarezhou Rangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harare — AS the four-seater Cessna flew low over the carcasses of two huge jumbos slain by poachers a week before, an eerie nauseating atmosphere filled the stuffy interior of the small aircraft. A short distance ahead, vultures were feasting on yet another dead elephant, a dinner that could last days for the scavengers if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1112</link>
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		<title>Gonarezhou under spotlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A HIGH-LEVEL taskforce comprising police, National Parks investigations department, police units from neighbouring countries and Interpol has launched investigations into operations of tightly-knit syndicates that are believed to be behind large- scale poaching of animals in Gonarezhou National Park. In the past five months, six white and two black rhinos have been killed and dehorned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zimconservation.com/?p=1110</link>
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