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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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The price of pangolin scales has fallen by half or more in Cameroon in the last five years, market data shows. That has coincided with evidence of a fall in demand from China and more effective domestic law enforcement, offering new hope in saving these shy, endangered animals from extinction. Data compiled by the wildlife law enforcement group LAGA shows declines of between 45% and 75% in the average prices of scales for all three species of pangolin found in Cameroon, in both rural and urban areas, between 2020 and 2025.
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| CMR_2025_11_Price of pangolin scales tumbles in Cameroon as Chinese demand wanes_Wild Aid Africa.pdf | 281.93 KB |
Two Matabeleland South men will spend the next nine years in prison after being caught trying to sell a 1.6kg pangolin skin at a long distance bus terminus in Bulawayo. Mlamuleli Moyo (35) of Maphosa Homestead in Matopo and Gugulethu Ncube (21) of Mbofana Homestead, Figtree, were convicted at the Bulawayo Tredgold Magistrates' Court for unlawful possession of a pangolin skin, a trophy from a specially protected animal under the Parks and Wildlife Act.
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| ZIM_2025_11_Poachers pay price_Pangolin pelt lands duo 9 years_Herald Online.pdf | 103.5 KB |