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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The Ministry of Tourism has offered an undisclosed reward to anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of poachers who killed a White Rhino in Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Livingstone, on Tuesday. In a statement, Ministry of Tourism Principal Public Relations Officer Nelly Banda, through the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW), revealed that the incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday between 02:00 and 03:00 hours.
Smugglers are getting more creative in the way they conceal contraband - such as rhino horn - out of South Africa.
Two men allegedly desperately trying to find a buyer for a rhino horn appeared in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Court on Monday. Jeremy Perring, 36, and Keanon Tereblanche, 27, were arrested at a beachfront restaurant in possession of a rhino horn on Friday. The two were each released on R3 000 bail and the case has been postponed to 29 April.
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