Zim wildlife pillage continues

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Zimbabwean game-farm owners say that wildlife is being stripped from their land by war veterans and hunters. (Photograph: courtesy EAR).
Beleaguered Zimbabwean farmers say war veterans and hunters from South Africa and Botswana are stripping game farms of their wildlife. And even when Zimbabwean authorities arrest alleged perpetrators, political intervention allows them to walk free.

The farmers now say they have had enough and will fight back on their own to protect the remaining wild animals.

In May the Mail & Guardian reported that South African hunters and safari operators were exploiting the chaos in Zimbabwe. But Ben Zietsman, chief executive of the Matabeleland branch of the Commercial Farmers Union’s (CFU), has told the M&G the carnage is continuing.

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