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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Just two weeks after four lions were discovered dead near Lesoma Village in Chobe, two more adult males were found yesterday in a fresh poisoning incident. The reason behind what appears to be the targeted eradication of the pride is still unclear, but there are growing suspicions that the lions may have been poisoned by farmers as a result of escalating human-wildlife conflict.
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| BOT_2025_12_More lions found dead in a suspected poisoning case_The Okavango Express.pdf | 62.57 KB |