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MONTH: June 2006

Zimbabwe running out of “trophies”

 

HARARE––The Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority in April 2006 suspended hunting in game conservancies, just three months after nationalizing the hunting industry amid reports that profiteering Robert Mugabe regime insiders were allowing visiting hunters to annihilate the “trophy” animal population of the country.
“We want the animals to be more mature before hunting can resume,” said parks public relations manager Edward Mbewe. “We want to improve the trophy quality.”


All lion hunting was suspended in Matabeleland North. “Villagers should report any stray lions instead of killing the animals,” Mbewe said. “Lions are favoured by hunters and thus generate a lot of foreign currency.”


Mbewe acknowledged that tourists had complained about seeing few animals in drought-stricken Hwange National Park.