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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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Ohangwena police on Friday arrested three men found with two fresh rhino horns. The trio were arrested at a temporary roadblock at Omungwelume. According to Ohangwena police spokesperson, sergeant Abner Kaume Itumba, the men were travelling in a seven-seater vehicle when they were arrested.
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| NAM_2017-12_Three arrested with two rhino horns_The Namibian.pdf | 188.66 KB |
Who are the people driving Namibiaʼs plans to open commercial abattoirs for donkey meat and skins for Asia? Oscar Nkala tracks them down.
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| Oxpeckers_Faces behind Namibias donkey abattoirs.pdf | 266.66 KB |
Two rhinos have been shot and killed in yet another poaching incident this past weekend, bringing the total to 30 for the year. The poaching incident occurred on a private farm in central Namibia, whose name and location cannot be released for security reasons.
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| NAM_2017-11_Two more rhinos poached_Namibian Sun.pdf | 80.25 KB |
Investigations are ongoing at a farm on the outskirts of Windhoek where a rhino was poached over the weekend and its horns removed. Two rhinos were shot on Friday on a farm located near Aris and one of them survived the attack.
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| NAM_2017-11_Rhino poached outside capital_Namibian Sun.pdf | 102.89 KB |