South Africa: Decline in rhino poaching cases confirmed
03 august 2024 - 10:09:22Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Environment Minister Dion George has welcomed the downward trend in rhino poaching numbers in [...] Full text...
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Environment Minister Dion George has welcomed the downward trend in rhino poaching numbers in [...] Full text...
UNESCO World Heritage Sites often ‘last line of defence against extinction’
01 september 2023 - 05:22:58Paris, France (PANA) - Some of the world’s most iconic natural and cultural sites are also a haven for thousands [...] Full text...
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2021 Women's Champions league: Semifinal fixtures of COSAFA Qualifiers revealed
01 september 2021 - 05:26:11Durban, South Africa (PANA) - Zambia’s Green Buffaloes and Botswana’s Double Action Ladies have booked their places in semi-finals of [...] Full text...
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COSAFA Qualifiers: Sundowns, Black Rhinos secure semifinal spots
29 august 2021 - 19:23:38Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns and Zimbabwe’s Black Rhinos Queens are the first two [...] Full text...
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Monaco Princess Charlene recovering from illness in South Africa
28 may 2021 - 13:01:42Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Princess Charlene of Monaco is recovering in South Africa after contracting an ear, nose [...] Full text...
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Botswana dismisses alarming rhino poaching reports
02 march 2021 - 18:38:52Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has allayed social media reports that purports that 120 rhinos with and without horns have [...] Full text...
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Rwanda introduces GPS collars for wild species in national parks
06 november 2020 - 17:17:13Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - In a move to protect rare animals in its national parks, Rwanda has introduced next generation [...] Full text...
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Kenya wildlife investigators arrest two suspected rhino poachers
26 september 2020 - 19:25:16Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Two traffickers of rhino horns have been arrested in Kenya after a three-month investigation into a [...] Full text...
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Scientists continue plan to create test tube northern white rhino
20 august 2020 - 12:07:25Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The international team of scientists and conservationists working to conserve the northern white rhino has made [...] Full text...
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Poaching dismissed in mysterious elephant deaths in Botswana
19 may 2020 - 10:14:04Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has ruled out poaching in suspected poisoned elephant carcasses in two villages in the north-west [...] Full text...
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Authorities in Botswana warn residents of poisoned elephants
15 may 2020 - 17:30:28Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s Department of Wildlife and National Parks has warned residents in the Seronga village in the [...] Full text...
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Causalities occur in an army/poachers' shooting incident in Botswana
11 march 2020 - 20:21:29Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Botswana has recorded causalities between the army and poachers in a shootout on Wednesday morning. Botswana Defence [...] Full text...
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Kenya: Scientists fertilise another embryo from northern white rhino
16 january 2020 - 22:12:08Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Scientists have created a new embryo out of an artificial fertilisation of eggs taken from one [...] Full text...
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Botswana government steps up efforts to end poaching of rhinoceros
30 december 2019 - 18:34:27Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana Government has considerably stepped up efforts to address poaching with interventions that led to recovery [...] Full text...
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World’s oldest rhino dies at 57 in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater
28 december 2019 - 21:41:25Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The oldest free-ranging black rhino died at the age of 57 in the Ngorongoro [...] Full text...
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Botswana rhinos under siege
09 october 2019 - 10:44:25Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - A rhino was killed on 2 October, following a recorded poaching incident on 27 September in [...] Full text...
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Scientists make breakthrough in international bid to save white rhino from extinction
11 september 2019 - 16:16:15Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Scientists have achieved a milestone with the successful creation of two embryos from eggs havested from [...] Full text...
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‘Extinction crisis’ pushes countries to agree stronger protection for global wildlife
29 august 2019 - 06:58:08Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - At-risk wildlife that is facing a “growing extinction crisis” received a boost on Wednesday, as countries [...] Full text...
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Kenya leads international effort to save northern white rhinos from extinction
27 august 2019 - 14:47:46Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan and Italian scientists have joined forces to stop the northern white rhino from going extinct [...] Full text...
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Pharmaceutical company Merck to assist in reproduction of northern white rhino
30 july 2019 - 03:02:14Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Pharmaceutical company Merck is contributing its expertise to the BioRescue project team in the development [...] Full text...
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Rwanda to import 5 more eastern black rhinos from Europe
21 june 2019 - 01:41:02Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda is set to receive Sunday some five additional eastern black rhinos from Czech Republic to [...] Full text...
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Kagame takes Qatari Emir on game park tour
22 april 2019 - 11:07:49Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame and the visiting Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, [...] Full text...
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Anthrax outbreak kills 10 buffaloes at Kenya national park
07 april 2019 - 15:21:58Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ten buffalos have died at the Lake Nakuru National Park following an anthrax breakout, Kenya Wildlife [...] Full text...
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Environment watchdog hails UK ban on ivory sales
20 december 2018 - 17:08:46Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) on Thursday welcomed the UK Government’s ban of ivory sales, shutting [...] Full text...
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Kenyan wildlife body probes death of ageing black rhinos
22 november 2018 - 18:12:14Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - One of Kenya's oldest black rhinos named Sairowua, 37 years old, is among three carcasses of [...] Full text...
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Chinese trade in rhino horns endangers wildlife species, says Kenya govt
07 november 2018 - 12:08:16Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government has called a move by the Chinese authorities to authorise trade in rhino [...] Full text...
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Kenyan govt invites expert probe after eight mysterious rhino deaths
13 july 2018 - 15:56:24Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan authorities have invited international wildlife experts to initiate a probe following the surprise death of [...] Full text...
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Central Africa’s iconic mammals threatened by poachers, armed groups – UNEP
20 january 2018 - 08:06:03Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Elephants, giraffes, rhinos and other magnificent mammals targeted in wildlife conservation areas of Central Africa are [...] Full text...
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CAF releases shortlisted players for awards
28 november 2017 - 18:17:39Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released the shortlisted players for the African Player of [...] Full text...
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US: UN salutes park rangers' dedication and commitment
01 august 2017 - 05:46:59New York, US (PANA) – The head of the United Nations entity on protection of endangered species said on Monday [...] Full text...
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France: INTERPOL identifies illegal wildlife trade on the Darknet
15 june 2017 - 09:09:40Lyon, France (PANA) - Illegal wildlife traders may be turning their attention to the Darknet, a new INTERPOL research report [...] Full text...
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Botswana: De Beers increased Botswana spending in 2016
04 may 2017 - 13:25:45Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - International mining company, De Beers Group, and its joint ventures spent more than P4 billion (approximately [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Wildlife charities warn CITES on trading in endangered species
19 september 2016 - 10:51:58Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - International wildlife charities, Born Free Foundation and Born Free USA, on Monday issued a [...] Full text...
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UN: UN report confirms corruption is biggest threat to ivory, wildlife officials arrested
14 june 2016 - 13:21:10Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A new UN report has confirmed that corrupt officials are at the heart of wildlife crime [...] Full text...
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UN: UN officials urge more action to deal with wildlife poachers
05 june 2016 - 16:41:59New York, US (PANA) - Marking the World Environment Day, which this year focuses on the illegal trade of wildlife, [...] Full text...
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Kenya: Kenya to seek total ban on ivory trade at CITES Summit
26 may 2016 - 13:59:44Nairobi, Kenya (PANA)- President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya said Thursday the recent burning of tonnes of ivory was a pledge [...] Full text...
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Kenya: UN launched campaign to mobilize millions to end illegal trade in wildlife
25 may 2016 - 16:39:20Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Backed by A-list celebrities from across the globe, the United Nations on Wednesday launched an unprecedented [...] Full text...
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UN: UN urges action to tackle wildlife crime
24 may 2016 - 18:58:44New York, US (PANA) - The poaching and illegal trade of thousands of species across the global present real environmental [...] Full text...
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Kenya: Oscar-winning actress joins Kenya's anti-poaching 'hearts and minds' campaign
27 april 2016 - 10:22:41Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - In the run-up to the world's largest ever ivory bonfire, to be conducted by the Kenya [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Kenya's ivory, rhino horn destruction to raise awareness on illegal wildlife trade
26 april 2016 - 11:55:30Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Seeking to raise national and international awareness on illegal wildlife trade, the Kenyan government, [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: AWF commends South Africa's decision to shelve proposal on rhino horn trade
21 april 2016 - 18:40:37Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) president Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya on Thursday commended the South African [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Tanzania jails two Chinese for illegal possession of ivory, bribery
19 march 2016 - 11:07:35Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Two Chinese have begun a 35-year jail term in Tanzania after failing to pay [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Born Free Foundation supports crackdown on international wildlife trafficking
15 march 2016 - 19:08:07Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Born Free Foundation has announced its support for Tuesday's declaration, signed by approximately [...] Full text...
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China: Wildlife ambassadors, Chinese celebrities say consuming rhino horn no better than fingernails
13 january 2016 - 08:54:11Beijing, China (PANA) - With rampant poaching threatening the survival of Africa’s rhinos, an all-star team of Chinese celebrities and [...] Full text...
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COP21: Angola named as global host of World Environment Day 2016
11 december 2015 - 14:06:48Paris, France (PANA) - Angola, which is seeking to conserve its biodiversity-rich wildlife and rebuild its elephant population, will host [...] Full text...
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South Africa: Sino-African group urges for wildlife conservation at China-Africa summit
03 december 2015 - 18:09:12Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - On the eve of the heads-of-state summit of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation in South [...] Full text...
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South Africa: South African animal rights group outraged over rhino judgment
27 november 2015 - 17:53:16Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The National Council of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Born Free Foundation condemns S. Africa's decision to overturn rhino horn trade ban
26 november 2015 - 16:29:23Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Born Free Foundation has strongly condemned the decision of the High Court in [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Wildlife issues on agenda for upcoming China-Africa presidential summit
17 november 2015 - 08:12:39Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Wildlife and environmental issues will be on the official agenda when Chinese and African [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: African Wildlife Foundation hails California's move to ban ivory, rhino horn trade
05 october 2015 - 19:55:56Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) Board Chair David Thomson has hailed the "bold and critical [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: President Obama announces tougher ivory trade regulations
25 july 2015 - 17:42:13Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - US President Barack Obama, on official visit to Kenya, announced Saturday a move to [...] Full text...
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US: US agency destroys confiscated ivory to save African wildlife
19 june 2015 - 08:27:32New York, US (PANA) - The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on Friday in New York City destroyed more than [...] Full text...
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UN: Small Arms Survey 2015 highlights increased firepower to wildlife poaching
01 june 2015 - 19:23:30New York, US (PANA) - A UN survey launched on Monday in New York said illegal trade in wildlife and [...] Full text...
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UN: UN conference stresses 'grave' need to combat wildlife crime
14 april 2015 - 07:45:35New York, US (PANA) - With wildlife and forest crimes on the rise, yielding enormous profits for criminal networks, UN [...] Full text...
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Kenya: South Africa weighs legalisation of rhino horn trade, AWF opposes
25 march 2015 - 19:15:52Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Committee of Inquiry established by South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs on Wednesday began hearing [...] Full text...
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UN: UN officials urge more global action to deal with wildlife crime
03 march 2015 - 20:08:19New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says illegal wildlife trade undermines rule of law, degrades ecosystems and [...] Full text...
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US: Strong support in China for action to end ivory, rhino horn trade
03 march 2015 - 11:35:09Washington, D.C., US (PANA) - Chinese consumer awareness of the ivory and rhino horn trade's devastating impact on African wildlife [...] Full text...
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Kenya: Threat of species' extinction real as World Wildlife Day is marked
02 march 2015 - 10:37:12Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ahead of this year's World Wildlife Day to be marked 3 March by governments, conservation groups [...] Full text...
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South Africa: Tributes pour in for leading conservationist Ian Player
01 december 2014 - 11:40:43Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Tributes are pouring for Dr. Ian Player, one of Africa’s leading conservationists who died [...] Full text...
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UN: Report says illegal trade in wildlife, timber products funding armed groups
24 june 2014 - 21:55:02New York, US (PANA) - A new joint UN-INTERPOL report says global environmental crime, worth more than US$200 billion annually, [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Germany provides 1m euros for endangered wildlife protection
24 june 2014 - 11:57:33Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Germany has pledged a 1-million-euro grant to Tanzania in support of government efforts to [...] Full text...
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Kenya: Police impound ivory consignment
05 june 2014 - 08:29:20Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Police in Kenya's port city of Mombasa have impounded a consignment of ivory worth millions of [...] Full text...
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US: UN adopts new global platform to tackle wildlife, forest crime
21 may 2014 - 21:43:33New York, US (PANA) - In response to the rising levels of illicit trafficking of fauna and flora, the UN [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Plight of elephants catches attention of local dailies
10 may 2014 - 10:15:10Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Protection of elephants against poachers and conservation of wildlife in general was a shared [...] Full text...
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Congo: Brazzaville to host conference on fight against poaching
22 april 2014 - 11:39:12Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - An international conference on the fight against poaching will be held in Brazzaville, the Congolese capital, [...] Full text...
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Kenya: Police arrest 3 suspects for killing rhinos
16 march 2014 - 17:09:44Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Wildlife rangers in Kenya have arrested three suspected poachers who have been handed to the Police [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Tackling game poaching, cervical cancer, traders’ wrangle make headlines
15 february 2014 - 10:28:54Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania’s battles against wildlife poaching on the one hand and against cervical cancer on [...] Full text...
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Kenya: US bolsters fight against wildlife crime
12 february 2014 - 16:29:50Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The US on Wednesday announced a National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking. The Strategy will strengthen [...] Full text...
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Clinton, daughter tour African Wildlife Foundation projects in Zambia
03 august 2013 - 12:42:49Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Former US President Bill Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea, on Friday visited conservation projects of the [...] Full text...
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Environment ministers meet to discuss threats to wildlife
19 february 2013 - 09:39:13Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Environment Ministers have gathered in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, to discuss the state of the world's environment, [...] Full text...
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Safaricom Marathon targets to raise Sh60 million
13 february 2013 - 15:16:48Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - This year's SafarIcom Marathon will take place on 29 June at the Lewa Wildlife Conservacy in [...] Full text...
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Rhino horn poacher convicted, sentenced in South Africa
12 december 2012 - 08:37:14Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Two days after South Africa and Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to [...] Full text...
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African law enforcers, lawyers call for stiffer penalties for poachers
02 november 2012 - 16:41:01Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Top legal minds came together in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday for a judicial discussion surrounding the [...] Full text...
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SA man stages toenail protest over rhino killings
25 october 2012 - 11:15:46Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A South African man has mailed his toenails to the Chinese Embassy in Pretoria [...] Full text...
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SA's Kruger Parks bears the brunt of rhino poaching
02 may 2012 - 08:46:39Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government Tuesday revealed that the country has lost 199 rhinos to [...] Full text...
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SA takes new measures to protect endangered rhinos
17 april 2012 - 12:43:09Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government has tightened rules on rhino hunting and will use micro-chips [...] Full text...
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Rhino poachers arrested in SA
15 february 2012 - 10:31:31Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Five suspected rhino poachers have been arrested in South Africa’s North West province and [...] Full text...
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SA hits back at rhino poachers
08 september 2011 - 07:44:16Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A rhino protection organization has announced a new initiative to tackle the scourge of [...] Full text...
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Zim game rangers kill Zambian poacher
19 february 2010 - 13:21:00Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Game rangers in Zimbabwe said Friday they had killed a Zambian poacher and arrested eight others, [...] Full text...
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Namibia backs Tanzania in ivory row with Kenya
29 january 2010 - 15:13:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The row over ivory sales deepened with Kenya Wildlife Se rvice (KWS), a government agency, saying [...] Full text...
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WC/CAN 2010: Kenya hunt Cup of Nations ticket in Maputo
05 september 2009 - 15:22:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya national football currently in Mozambique for Sunday's 2010 FIFA World Cup-cum African Cup of [...] Full text...
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Namibia puts black rhino under the block
23 april 2009 - 11:47:00Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The Namibian government has auctioned hunting concessions for the world's most protected mammal, the black rhino [...] Full text...
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US club striker, Taiwo, seeks Kenyan citizenship
10 march 2009 - 14:20:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Facts are now emerging that US-based striker, Taiwo Atie no Opiyo, called up to Kenya’s national [...] Full text...
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US-based striker joins Kenyan World Cup squad
09 march 2009 - 17:20:00Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- US-based striker, Opiyo Taiwo, jetted into the country S unday to join Kenya's national football team, [...] Full text...
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