January
28 January – U.S. Gives $1.2 Million to Protect Elephants… The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has announced it will award $1,277,921 in grants to 15 African countries to assist in the protection of African elephants.
23 January – Fears for east African bushmeat slaughter… Food shortages in troubled African states are fueling an unprecedented wave of wildlife slaughter for bushmeat, reports have revealed.
23 January – Birdlife Zimbabwe’s Feb/March Babbler Newsletter
20 January – Gifts for Tatenda (Rhino Orphan at Imire)… ZCTF report on donations to Imire.
18 January – IMF estimates inflation at 150 000 percent… An International Monetary Fund (IMF) document says Zimbabwe’s inflation for January has galloped to about 150 000% as the economy continues to crumble. This is the same rate reached by Germany during the Weimar Republic in the 1920s in the post-First World War era.
17 January – National Parks Increases Entry, Lodge Charges… The Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has increased entry fees and accommodation rates for lodges in all the country’s parks.
16 January – Govt Urged to Review Fines for Environment Polluters…. Environmentalists have urged Government to review the fines and penalties for environmental polluters in line with inflation as cases of environmental pollution persist.
15 January – SW Radio Africa – Podcast Interview with Johnny Rodrigues about the Imire tragedy…. Click Here to Listen.
12 January – Shops Close At National Park (Hwange) … Three upmarket restaurants and four retail facilities servicing Hwange National Park have been closed, it has been learnt.
7 January – Famous Zim elephant bull shot dead… Tusker is dead, shot by rangers after New Year’s revellers at a safari camp provoked the elephant into trampling several cars, conservationists said on Monday. Tusker, a towering 50-year-old bull, was shot on Sunday at the Charara camp on the shores of Lake Kariba, 370km north-west of Harare, parks officials and the independent Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said.
7 January – For a people wearied by strife, conservation project offers hope…WHEN Rachel Lowry began her conservation education work in Zimbabwe, she worried that animal welfare would never become a priority for people who lived with daily concerns for their own survival.
4 January – Harare gives green light for elephant biltong…. The Parks and Wildlife Management Authority of Zimbabwe plans to produce biltong from elephant meat to sell in retail outlets throughout the country “as part of sustainable utilisation of the animals”, the Herald online said on Friday. Parks director-general Dr Morris Mtsambiwa said the project began last year after the Ministry of Environment and Tourism permitted the authority to experiment with the “resource”.
