Zimbabwe: Wildlife Conservation - Where Are We Getting It Wrong?

2 November 2015
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FOLLOWING the horrendous death of over 60 elephants at Hwange due to cyanide poisoning in the past five weeks, hardly two years after 300 more elephants were massacred the same way, Zimbabwe requires a deep policy-searching moment: what has gone wrong in managing and protecting wildlife? Why does it seem poachers are always a step ahead of Government departments -- Parks and Wildlife Authority, police and public prosecutors?

Poaching has now morphed into a dangerous poisoning game under their watch?

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