November/December 2000
27 November--Catastrophe looms as war vets plunder wildlife and cattle... Invaders of wildlife sanctuaries burn grazing lands, chop down trees and poach buffalo, cheetah, giraffe, kudu and impala.
13 November--Zimbabwe's troubled tourist industry... Tourism Recovery Programme launched to burnish sullied image. 'Top attractions are safe,' it says.
September/October 2000
16 October--No end to slaughter of rare animals as thousands of squatters indulge in lawless destruction... Terrible toll of protected species. Cheetah, black rhino, wild dogs, elephants die in agony. Politicians control the market in stolen game meat.
24 September--Troops sent to protect wildlife... The Zimbabwe government is to deploy soldiers to protect wildlife threatened by poachers, mainly war veterans, in the country's largest game reserve, the Save Valley Conservancy.
11 September--Zimbabwe in poaching crisis... Officials at Africa's largest privately owned game park, the Save Valley Conservancy in Zimbabwe, say poachers have killed more than 1,600 animals in the reserve since government supporters began their campaign of invasions of white-owned land earlier this year.
7 September-- Poachers feast on Zimbabwe's land crisis... Africa's biggest privately-owned wildlife sanctuary in Zimbabwe faces extinction as poachers exploit the ongoing land crisis to wreak havoc.
July/August 2000
18 August--Zimbabwe wildlife 'face disaster'...Zimbabwe's policy of redistributing land owned by white commercial farmers threatens "ecological disaster", according to an eminent conservationist.
14 August--Poachers outnumber tourists on world's biggest private game reserve... In Mugabe's bankrupt and lawless land, wildlife is being systematically annihilated.
13 July--Zimbabwe squatters slaughter wildlife... 2,000 impalas, 365 other antelopes, 20 zebras, two cheetahs, two elephants and one wild dog snared. ‘The animals die in absolute agony.'
May/June 2000
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March/April 2000
4 April--Horns of dilemma...CITES delegates are expected to lock horns over ivory question.
January/February 2000
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