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Namibian Wildlife Crimes article archive
This archive of published media articles about wildlife crime in Namibia aims to:
- provide easy public access to published information and statistics
- enable easy stakeholder access to articles
- provide a comprehensive archive of wildlife crime reporting in Namibia
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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The World Rhino Day was first celebrated by WWF South Africa in 2010. Since then the world has followed suit to spread awareness of the need to save the five species of rhino. Namibia celebrated the day on 22 September at Khorixas with deputy environment minister Bernadette Jagger officiating.
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| NAM_2018-09_Youth urged to protect Namibias rhino_The Namibian.pdf | 416.12 KB |
While about 1 200 rhinos in Namibia are now in private care, the country is still experiencing high levels of poaching, with 29 rhinos poached this year already.
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| NAM_2018-09_1 200 rhinos in private care_Namibian Sun.pdf | 102.74 KB |
The environment ministry's new anti-poaching dog unit has already recorded several successes, which includes apprehending a poacher in the Etosha National Park. This happened during the dogs' first operation, just 16 days after their handlers started training with them.
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| NAM_2018-09_Dogs on the trail of poachers_Namibian Sun.pdf | 140.57 KB |
The Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) last week held a training workshop on wildlife crime for 16 representatives of the legal fraternity, police officers and park wardens from the environment ministry.
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| NAM_2018-09_LAC trains legal fraternity on wildlife crime_Namibian Sun.pdf | 105.74 KB |
The environment ministry last week inaugurated the dog unit that will be used for wildlife protection and law-enforcement.
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| NAM_2018-09_Dog unit for wildlife protection launched_The Namibian.pdf | 331.44 KB |
Police are clamping down on poachers, with two police busts leading to the arrest of an alleged poaching gang found in possession of rhino horns and another man attempting to smuggle ten elephant tusks. Police at the Divundu police checkpoint arrested two men driving a white BMW in the early hours of Thursday morning after they were found in possession of three rhino horns. They were identified as Liebelo Erick Manja (31) and Aldrian Masule Musisanyani (41), and both were charged with possession of controlled wildlife products.
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| NAM_2018-09_Three men arrested for rhino horns_Namibian Sun.pdf | 61.95 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 |