Rhino horn is still flowing from Africa to China—carved into bracelets, not just medicine by NORMA TSOPO AT THE turn of the 20th century, an estimated 500,000 rhinos roamed the wild. Today, fewer than 27,000 remain, and a rhino is killed every 15 hours.
by BERNARD CHIKETO FROM time immemorial, the Monavale Vlei has done exactly what a healthy wetland ought to do. It has sponged up seasonal rains, filtered pollutants, recharged aquifers and released clean water into the Marimba River system feeding Lake Chivero, Harare’s main reservoir.
by BERNARD CHIKETO A SILENT ecological pressure is building in one of Zimbabwe’s major biodiversity hotspots. In tourist-favoured retreats of the Vumba and Chimanimani mountains, usually admired for their unique birds and rare wildlife, an unassuming domestic animal has become a significant conservation concern.
by BERNARD CHIKETO MY EARLIEST memories are not of city streets, but of the deep, loamy smells of the forest floor and the symphony of the wild.
by BERNARD CHIKETO WHEN Ever Chinoda received the 2025 Women in Conservation Award in London last week, the accolade was more than a personal triumph.
