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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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Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Xi F, Chao X, Wu S, Zhang F 2025. Curbing the trade in pangolin scales in China by revealing the characteristics of the illegal trade network. Scientific Reports 15

Globally, pangolins are the most heavily trafficked mammals and China is one of the main destinations for their scales and meat. Conducting separate studies on the characteristics of the illegal trade in pangolin meat and in scales in China will provide a basis for devising more targeted protection strategies and actions. This study focused on the illegal pangolin-scale trading network in China by collating relevant cases of smuggling published in China Judgements Online, revealing that most scales came from Africa.

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Thursday, 3 October 2024

Kayunde M 2024. A brand new Namibian documentary on kykNET this October. Documentary films and series are becoming increasingly popular locally and globally because viewers have an ever-growing interest in the story behind the story. This October, a brand new Namibian documentary is showing on kykNET (DStv channel 144 and GOtv channel 15).The documentary, Eden’s Guardian Angelst, looks at the extraordinary trajectory from wildlife crisis to conservation victory. On a continent struggling with the devastating effects of poaching and the conflict between the needs of people and nature, Namibia stands out as a beacon of hope. It is also an inspiring example of the invaluable contribution that community-led conservation can make. This compelling film takes a closer look at Namibia’s pioneering conservation efforts and introduces the viewer to dedicated guardians of three conservation areas across this vast and pristine country. Through their eyes, we see the urgent plight of the world’s most traded mammal, the jackdaw and the last remaining, free-ranging black rhinos, whose numbers are still shrinking.

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Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Minter A 2020. Endangered species among virus victims.

In Botswana, which depends heavily on tourism, poachers have taken advantage of suddenly empty wildlife reserves to kill at least six endangered rhinos during the coronavirus pandemic.

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