Zimbabwe’s first global biodiversity prize
The Save Valley Conservancy joins the Amazon and the Serengeti on the list of places the planet cannot lose by BERNARD CHIKETO ZIMBABWE has its first globally recognised Key Biodiversity Area.
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A Feathered Fiasco
by STAFF WRITER THE VICTORIA Falls Anti Poaching Unit (VFAPU) has arrested a suspect for allegedly slaughtering and selling guinea fowl on a commercial scale, bringing a two-week surveillance operation to a close.
The women saving Nenhohwe
In rural Zimbabwe, it is women who are holding the land—and the dead—together by NORMA TSOPO ON A scantly vegetated plain in Chimanimani district, Queen Chimwoyo gestures at terraces of stone, neatly packed behind woven wire. These are gabions, the humble engineering of soil conservation.
A traffic in keratin
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.
How Zimbabwe’s MPs lost their swamp
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.
The Unmanaged Predator: Feral Cats Pose a Quiet Threat to Zimbabwe’s Ecological Treasures
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.
How watching birds helps understand the environment
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.
The Legal Lioness: Ever Chinoda’s fight for wildlife justice
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.