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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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Johannesburg - A Police administrative clerk and a 36-year-old man have appeared in court after attempting to sell four stolen lion cubs for R100,000 each. The two and a 14-year-old minor were arrested on Thursday. 51-year-old Mokete Elizabeth Dikoko, who is attached to the Bothaville SAPS, and co-accused Elias Moloi appeared in the Bothaville Magistrate’s Court in the Free State. They face charges under the Environmental Management Biodiversity Act. The pair was arrested following a sting operation after authorities received information about the illegal sale.
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| SA_2026_04_SAPS clerk charged for trying to sell lion cubs_ENCA.pdf | 151.5 KB |
The global demand for small wildlife, including ants, spiders and scorpions, is increasing. Just this week, a group of Belgians and Vietnamese were sentenced for smuggling ants out of Kenya. Dr Caswell Munyai, a myrmecologist from UKZN has more on this.
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| SA_2025_05_Global demand for small wildlife on the increase_ENCA.pdf | 44.87 KB |
Johannesburg - SANParks is welcoming hefty sentences handed to rhino poachers by the Skukuza Regional Court. Four men, including a former field ranger, were arrested in Skukuza in 2019 following a tip-off. Poaching equipment and a set of rhino horns were seized.
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| SA_2025_01_Rhino poaching_SANParks welcomes hefty court sentences_ENCA.pdf | 201.8 KB |
Southern African nations are at it again. Nyasha Chingono reported in late May that those “hosting the largest elephant populations in the world made a fresh pitch…to be allowed to sell their $1bn ivory stockpiles”, purportedly to allocate it towards conservation. How they derive this figure is unclear, and the report doesn’t question its veracity. Current ivory prices are around US$400/kg in illicit markets in the East and averaging about $92/kg across Africa (except for Nigeria which has now become the continent’s major export hub).
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| SA_2024_06_The billion dollar ivory illusion_Conservation Action.pdf | 2.87 MB |
Ryan Tate is supposed to be in South Africa right now helping to fight off poachers who hack horns off rhinos and kill elephants for their ivory tusks. But since the country announced a national lockdown in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Tate is stuck in the U.S. He can't join his team out in South Africa's wilderness and can't meet with private donors in the U.S. for his anti-poaching nonprofit organization, which is seeing donations dry up.
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| SA_2020-04_Coronavirus_ Poachers kill more animals as tourism to Africa plummets_cnbc.pdf | 486.2 KB |