UNESCO adds 14 new biosphere reserves
by STAFF WRITER FROM the quartzite peaks of Mount Binga to the Rusitu river valley far below, this corner of eastern Zimbabwe has long been a laboratory in the hardest of sciences: survival.
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Rivers of Ruin
by BERNARD CHIKETO When government declared a state of disaster last week to rehabilitate the country’s ravaged river systems, it offered a rare admission: mining, both legal and roving, has brought ecological catastrophe to seventeen major waterways.
Mine inspectors armoured with political cover
by BERNARD CHIKETO Government has told its mine inspectors that their orders to close unsafe pits will no longer be quietly reversed by well-connected operators, promising to shield them from the political meddling and intimidation that have long undercut regulation in one of Africa’s more dangerous mining jurisdictions.
Zimbabwe makes polluters pay—at least in law
by STAFF WRITER THE NOTION that those who dirty the environment should pick up the tab has graduated from campaign slogan to binding legal duty in Zimbabwe.
Carbon, cleaned – a Mutare entrepreneur’s bet on engine hygiene
by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR A COUNTRY that has pledged to cut emissions by 2030, Zimbabwe’s roads tell a different story.
The art of saving the planet in Mutare
In eastern Zimbabwe, poets and painters are proving more effective at motivating green action than policy papers by BERNARD CHIKETO ON A SUN-SPLASHED morning in Sakubva, Mutare’s oldest suburb, Tawanda Ndlovu made an environmental plea that would have silenced a room of bureaucrats.