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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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From sharks, rhinos to giraffes - they are the focus of the species conservation conference in Samarkand. As of November 24, 185 states in Uzbekistan will be wrestling over trade bans and restrictions. There is a lot at stake: the fate of more than 230 animal and plant species is being decided. The organization Pro Wildlife warns in advance of dangerous steps backwards in the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which regulates or even prohibits the international trade in plants and animals.
One of the greatest tragedies in Namibian conservation is playing out on the Kavango River east of Rundu in the Shamvura area where poachers operating from the Angolan side of the river have wiped out 75% of the local hippo population over the past year. Eyewitnesses report seeing Angolan individuals indiscriminately and in open daylight shooting at the hippo pod on the Namibian side of the river in what appears to be a thriving illegal trade in hippo meat across the river.
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen's move suggests that, when forced to choose, the DA leadership is more worried about hunters and wildlife ranchers than about lions in cages and a country's integrity on the world stage. Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George and replace him with DA national spokesperson Willie Aucamp. On paper, it's just another reshuffle request in a fragile Government of National Unity.
The High Court has dismissed both the unlawful detention and bail applications filed by convicted wildlife trafficker and corruption suspect Yunhua Lin, ruling that he remains a serious flight risk and that releasing him could compromise ongoing proceedings. Delivering his determination, Judge Redson Kapindu said Lin's previous conduct and the gravity of the offences he faces justified his continued detention. The court has ordered that Lin be held at Dedza Prison pending the next hearing.