This archive of published media articles about wildlife crime in Namibia aims to:
Public access to information is a vital component of ensuring community engagement in prevalent issues. Wildlife crime is one of the pressing environmental issues of our time.
Wildlife crime investigations are generally covert operations requiring utmost confidentiality to succeed. Investigations and prosecutions in complex cases may take months or even years to complete. For this reason, the information that can be released to the public without compromising cases is often limited. Nonetheless, the Namibian government strives to share as much information as possible with the public.
The Namibian media has welcomed this approach and regularly publishes statistics and feature articles on wildlife crime. These are entered into the database at regular intervals, creating a comprehensive archive of wildlife crime reporting in Namibia.
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NAM_2024_04_Enormer Anstieg der Wilderei_Allgemeine Zeitung.pdf | 53.66 KB |
NAM_2024_04_Enormous increase in poaching_Allgemeine Zeitung_Eng.pdf | 48.4 KB |
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2024_04_NWP ernstig oor bewaring_Republikein.pdf | 64.53 KB |
NAM_2024_04_NWP serious about conservation_Republikein_Eng.pdf | 74.69 KB |
In kamoefleerdrag, swart stewels en ’n semi-outomatiese wapen in sy holster, is Marcus Jacobs soggens reg vir aksie. Wat dalk na ’n militêre operasie klink, is in werklikheid die daaglikse roetine van ’n man met ’n missie: die beskerming van bedreigde wild teen stropers. Jacobs is die hoofbestuurder van Namibia Wildlife Protection (NWP), ’n private sekuriteitsmaatskappy wat bedreigde wildspesies in Namibië teen stropers beskerm. Dit sluit in "hoë teikenspesies" soos renosters en olifante. "Ons kan nie meer ons kosbare spesies sonder wapens beskerm nie.
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NAM_2024_04_Wildstropers se Nemesis_Republikein.pdf | 66.37 KB |
NAM_2024_04_Game Poachers Nemesis_Republikein_Eng.pdf | 75.81 KB |
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NAM_2024_04_Namibia warns of rising pangolin trafficking on World Pangolin Day_Xinhua.pdf | 96.53 KB |
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NAM_2024_02_Pangolinschmuggler festgesetzt_Allgemeine Zeitung.pdf | 241.65 KB |
NAM_2024_02_Pangolin smuggler arrested_Allgemeine Zeitung_Eng.pdf | 240.81 KB |
Police arrest six suspected rhino poachers in Limpopo and Gauteng; recover horns, guns and ammunition.
Bei Outjo mehren sich weiterhin die Vorfälle von Kriminalität auf Farmen. Wie Rolf Wagner und Erika Zamzow von der Farm Moselle gegenüber der AZ berichteten, haben Unbekannte im vergangenen Dezember Solarinstallationen und Pumpen von fünf Wasserstellen der Farm gestohlen. Die Farm arbeite eng mit der Anti-Wilderei-Einheit Nyime zusammen, die die Diebe "über fast 30 Kilometer bis zur Teerstraße Outjo-Khorixas verfolgt" hätten. Die Diebe seien nicht gefasst, aber nahezu alle gestohlenen Teile sichergestellt worden.
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NAM_2024_01_Diebstaehle bei Farmen um Outjo_Allgemeine Zeitung.pdf | 303.47 KB |
NAM_2024_01_Thefts from farms around Outjo_Allgemeine Zeitung_Eng.pdf | 304.72 KB |
Das namibische Umweltministerium ist beunruhigt über eine akute Zunahme der Wilderei von Pangolinen in Namibia in den letzten Monaten. "Das Ministerium ist erfreut zu beobachten, dass zwischen dem 1. September und dem 30. November 2023 mehr Verdächtige im Zusammenhang mit Schuppentierhandel verhaftet wurden. Wir sind jedoch besorgt, dass dies auch auf einen Anstieg der Verbrechen an Schuppentieren hinweisen könnte", so Romeo Muyunda, Sprecher des Ministeriums, in einer Mitteilung.
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NAM_2023_12_Sorge um Schuppentiere_Allgemeine Zeitung.pdf | 278.37 KB |
NAM_2023_12_Pangolin concern_Allgemeine Zeitung_Eng.pdf | 262.54 KB |
The Hawks have arrested a second suspect allegedly linked to the stockpile hit at the North West Parks Board headquarters in Mafikeng last week. According to a Daily Maverick source, the suspect was apprehended in a planned operation near Brits at about 9pm on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning the arrest was confirmed by a senior SAPS officer who did not want to be identified.
Conservationists are raising serious questions about crime scene protocols - and the sense in stockpiling rhino horn - after a report claimed the police took eight hours to respond to a burglary at the North West Parks Board on Monday. In what is being described as a well-planned heist executed with military precision, thieves broke into the Heritage House headquarters of the North West Parks Board in the early hours of Monday and stole 51 rhino horns worth millions of rands on the Asian black market.
Durban - Two men were arrested and charged for illegal possession of abalone worth R3 million after a high speed chase between police and a Nissan Navara, Eastern Cape police said.
Botswana's government has presented to the ongoing CITES CoP-19 in Panama a detailed document on the country's efforts to contain rhino poaching which increased at least 100 fold between 2018 and 2020. The country recorded two rhino poaching incidents in the five years between 2012 and 2017 with zero incidents reported in 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2017.
The South African National Parks has welcomed the lengthy jail terms handed down to three Mozambican nationals convicted of rhino poaching.
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SA_2023_01_Mozambique nationals living illegally in SA jailed for rhino poaching_IOL.pdf | 198 KB |
Wildlife officials have hailed the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) recent decision to appeal what it called the lenient sentences handed to two rhino poachers in May, as well as the jailing this week of one of the men in a separate case.
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SA_2022_12_NPA applauded for tougher stance on rhino poachers_Mail and Guardian.pdf | 238.77 KB |
Botswana' Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) has confirmed the recent arrest of a man found in possession of a live pangolin in the capital Gaborone. The department says the incident was reported to them by the Botswana Police, raising concern about the continued poaching of pangolins.
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BOT_2022_11_Botswana man arrested for possession of live pangolin_Independent.pdf | 277.61 KB |
Zitha was convicted on a host of poaching-related offences which included trespassing, possession of a firearm with a silencer, possession of ammunition, killing of a rhino, possession of an axe and conspiracy to commit an offence.
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SA_2022_11_Rhino poacher jailed for 17 years while his accomplice is still on the run_IOL_0.pdf | 223.68 KB |
The national prosecuting authority (NPA) has reinstated charges and re-enrolled an eight-year-old case against known rhino poacher Gideon (aka Deon) van Deventer, after it emerged the original case had been quashed and struck from the roll under dubious circumstances. The state’s 2014 Bronkhorstspruit firearms case against Van Deventer was re-opened in June this year after a whistle-blower tipped off law enforcement authorities and court officials about a miscarriage of justice that occurred at the Bronkorstspruit magistrate’s court on 24 July 2015.
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SA_2022_10_State reinstates charges against rhino poacher Gideon van Deventer_Mail and Guardian.pdf | 308.36 KB |
Simba Masinga, one of the seven prisoners who escaped from Waainek Correctional Centre in Makhanda in the early hours of Tuesday morning, has been rearrested. Police said Masinga, convicted for rhino poaching, was the second person to be arrested.
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SA_2022_10_Makhanda prison escape_second suspect nabbed while hiding in bushes_IOL.pdf | 205.79 KB |
Nach Angaben von Nashornschützern sind anscheinend grenzübergreifende Syndikate an der Nashornwilderei in Namibia beteiligt. Während auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent die Zahlen der Nashornwilderei insgesamt sinken, verzeichnet Namibia seit einigen Monaten beunruhigend viele Fälle. Laut dem Direktor des Save the Rhino Trust, Simon Uri Khob, zeigen Berichte, dass Syndikate von Nashornwilderern aus Südafrika in Namibia agieren und es vor allem auf kommerzielle Farmen absehen. Das berichtete das US-amerikanische internationale Nachrichtenportal VOA.
Heute ist Weltnashorntag: Ein Tag, der einerseits an die Faszination und Schönheit der grauen Riesen erinnert - aber auch an ihre Gefährdung und Schutzbedürftigkeit angesichts zahlreicher Bedrohungen weltweit. In Afrika geht die Population der Nashörner laut Umweltstiftung WWF insgesamt jährlich um drei Prozent zurück. Es werden jedes Jahr hunderte Nashörner wegen ihres Horns getötet; in Südafrika sind die Tiere besonders gefährdet. Der internationale Handel mit Nashorn-Hörnern ist zwar verboten.
A white rhino has reportedly been killed and dehorned by poachers inside the protected Khama Rhino Sanctuary (KRS) in Botswana. Two separate conservationists have reported about the killing. One conservationist told this publication that their sources inside the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) confirmed the incident. "Two weeks ago a white rhino was poached at Khama Rhino Sanctuary but they are denying it happened at their property but sources inside DWNP confirm it was indeed at KRS."
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BOT_08_Rhino killed at Khama Sanctuary_Sunday Standard.pdf | 437.09 KB |
Unter den Opfern der Wilderei im südlichen Afrika wird den meisten nicht zu allererst die Hyäne einfallen. Eine Studie zeigt, dass die Folgen der Drahtschlingenwilderei für die Population der Tüpfelhyäne bisher stark unterschätzt wurden.
Among the victims of poaching in southern Africa, the hyena will not come to mind for most. A study shows that the consequences of wire snare poaching for the spotted hyena population have been grossly underestimated.
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NAM_2022_08_Wilderei bedroht auch Hyaenen_Allgemeine Zeitung.pdf | 499.82 KB |
NAM_2022-08_Poaching also threatens hyenas_Allgemeine Zeitung_Eng.pdf | 494.24 KB |
"The absence of tourists in conservation areas enables poachers to act more freely. In normal times, tourists act as additional 'eyes and ears' in conservation areas, and their presence deters poachers from acting, but the decline in tourism activity emboldened poachers," a UK government report on the impact of Covid-19 on poaching has said.
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BOT_2022_04_Increased movement in wildlife areas reduces poaching activities_Sunday Standard.pdf | 343.45 KB |
Sie sind faszinierend, selten und oft das Ziel von Wilderei und Schmuggel - Pangoline, auch bekannt als Schuppentiere. Sie sind das einzige geschuppte Säugetier und ihre Spezies, von der es acht Unterarten gibt, ist über 60 Millionen Jahre alt. Morgen, am 19. Februar, ist Weltpangolintag, um auf die hohe Gefährdung dieser beeindruckenden Tierart aufmerksam zu machen. Der Mensch ist dabei die größte Bedrohung: Schuppentiere sind die meist geschmuggelte Säugetierspezies weltweit, vor allem da ihre Schuppen in Asien als traditionelles Heilmittel verwendet werden.
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NAM_2022_02_Welttag der Schuppentiere-Allgemeine Zeitung.pdf | 567.89 KB |
NAM_2022_02_World Pangolin Day_Allgemeine Zeitung_Eng.pdf | 557.44 KB |
Poaching intensified over the past three years following the 2018 decision by the government to disarm the anti-poaching unit under the DWNP. The 100+ rhinos poached since the disarmament represents a 100+ percent increase in poaching incidents when compared to the previous three years when Botswana lost one rhino per annum in the preceding 2015, 2016, and 2017 when the unit had firearms. There were at least 12 rhinos poached in 2018, 29 rhinos in 2019, and over 50 poached by the end of 2020.
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BOT_2021_11_Botswana struggles with rising cases of rhino poaching_Independent Co.pdf | 716.01 KB |
Durban: Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife said the search was on for a suspected poacher, who may jumped into St Lucia Lake to avoid arrest.
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SA_2021_11_Missing suspected poacher may have jumped into St Lucia Lake to avoid arrest_IOL.pdf | 310.71 KB |
A long-serving nature conservation official and a former policeman have been charged in connection with illegally transporting 17 rhino horns from the Northern Cape to North West province in contravention of permit conditions.
Die Internasionale Renosterstigting (IRF) het sy jaarverslag oor die toestand van renosterbevolkings wêreldwyd gepubliseer en Namibië is geïdentifiseer as die land met die grootste witrenosterbevolking. Die situasie van renosters in Afrika en oor die hele wêreld is egter kommerwekkend. Die aantal witrenosters op die Afrikavasteland het die afgelope jaar weens stropery afgeneem. Met 'n huidige bevolking van ongeveer 18 000, het dié getal die afgelope dekade met 12% afgeneem.
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NAM_2021_09_Namibie vaar goed met renosterbewaring_Republikein.pdf | 385.58 KB |
NAM_2021_09_Namibia is doing well with rhino conservation_Republikein_Eng.pdf | 382.44 KB |
Die internationale Nashornstiftung (IRF) hat seinen jährlichen Bericht zum Zustand der Nashornpopulationen weltweit veröffentlicht und Namibia als Land mit der größten Population von Breitmaulnashörnern ausgewiesen. Allerdings sei die Situation der Nashörner sowohl in Afrika als auch weltweit besorgniserregend. Die Zahlen der Breitmaulnashörner auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent sind im vergangenen Jahr aufgrund von Wilderei geschrumpft. Mit etwa 18 000 Individuen ist die Population im vergangenen Jahrzehnt um 12 Prozent gesunken.
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NAM_2021_09_Namibia schuetzt Nashoerner gut_Allgemeine Zeitung.pdf | 610.27 KB |
NAM_2021_09_Namibia protects rhinos well_Allgemeine Zeitung_Eng.pdf | 605.35 KB |
Nashornwilderei ist in Afrika wieder zu einem großen Problem geworden. Angesichts steigender Fallzahlen und wachsender Sorgen haben Wissenschaftler in einem Pilotprojekt nun einen neuen Ansatz gewählt: Ein mit Radioaktivität versehenes Horn ist ein zu großes Risiko für Wilderer.
Rhino poaching has become a major problem again in Africa. In view of the increasing number of cases and growing concerns, scientists have now chosen a new approach in a pilot project: a horn provided with radioactivity is too great a risk for poachers.
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NAM_2021_06_Mit Radioaktivitaet gegen Wilderer_Allgemeine Zeitung.pdf | 751.07 KB |
NAM_2021-06_With radioactivity against poachers_Allgemeine Zeitung_Eng.pdf | 747.21 KB |
An intelligence-driven operation by the Hawks has resulted in the arrest of six suspects caught with elephant tusks in Durban. Police said the suspects, aged between 27 and 40, face charges for contravening the National Environmental Management of the Biodiversity Act.
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SA_202_02_Six nabbed with elephant tusks in Durban_IOL.pdf | 72.86 KB |
The Director of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) Brigadier Peter Magosi has defended government’s decision to dehorn Botswana’s rhinos as an anti-poaching control measure. Magosi has said the dehorning of rhinos was the only way they could ensure protection of the animals from poachers.
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BOT_2020-07_Its better to show tourists a dehorned rhino than nothing at all_Magosi_Sunday Standard.pdf | 197.57 KB |
Outrage greeted the early release of notorious Thai trafficker Chumlong Lemtongthai, who used false South African hunting permits to launder rhino horns. Simon Bloch reports.
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Oxpeckers_Fury at release of rhino pseudo-hunt kingpin.pdf | 241.77 KB |