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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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Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a man, Shamsudeen Abubakar, arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), to six years' imprisonment for illegally possessing and dealing in pangolin scales and claws weighing 1,014.5 Kilogrammes. Justice Bogoro jailed Abubakar after he pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of illegal possession and trade of pangolin parts, brought against him by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service.
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| NIG_2026_06_Court jails man arrested with pangolin scales_claws_Leadership News.pdf | 149.4 KB |
Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court has convicted and sentenced two animal poachers, Bunmi Dagunduro and Olusegun Oniyide, to 18 months in prison for unlawfully possessing three live pangolins, an endangered species. Justice Bogoro jailed the convict after they pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of conspiracy, possession and trade of endangered wildlife.
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| NIG_2026_04_Nigeria_Court jails poachers over illegal possession of live pangolins_AllAfrica.pdf | 27.57 KB |
Four men, including a police officer and a soldier, are due to appear in the Ohangwena Magistrate’s Court this morning after they were arrested for being in possession of eight rhino horns.
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| NAM_2021_06_Cop_soldier nabbed with rhino horns_New Era.pdf | 587.57 KB |
Namibia is in the process of establishing a special operations unit that will include the use of horses to help curb poaching, an ofcial said on Wednesday. According to Manie le Roux, who coordinates the K9 unit at the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, the mounted unit, which will have 12 horses and 14 members, will work together with the canine unit.
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| NAM_2020-11_Namibia mounted patrol_Journal of African Elephants.pdf | 327.76 KB |