Minister Mzembi is now in China, after visiting Chicago and Berlin, preparing for Zimbabwe to host the United Nations World Tourism Organisation Assembly in Victoria Falls next year. But greater abuse is taking place at home.
Invasions on Sunday 18th March 2012 of Oscro and Wasara Ranch, CRC exploded into the open with horrific images of freshly slaughtered elephants. Gangs of armed men could be seen building structures.
Barely last month, Francis Nhema acknowledged the problem of poaching and vowed to do more to help the situation. Mzembi also said that anyone who seeks to violate the law through invasions will be arrested.
A sceptical Zimbabwe based conservationists told ZimEye.com, “It appears these Ministers are not for real regarding saving wildlife in Conservancies, particularly CRC. No action on the ground. What is Mzembi and Nhema doing about it? Appears nothing, just paying lip service. They can stop an MDC meeting with all its support in Zimbabwe, at a moment’s notice, but cannot stop the invasions. It is very apparent that it has been planned for a long time to destroy what is left, and carry this out to the end”.
So it comes as something of a shock to see Mzembi “Crowned African Tourism Minister of the year 2011″, said a leading Wildlife Conservationist based at University of Kent’s School of Anthropology & Conservation. He went on to say “It is ridiculous that when Zimbabwe is due to host a major tourism conference, it is allowing marauding gangs to violate conservancies and animal rights so flagrantly. It takes Zimbabwe back many steps”.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwean conservationists and animal-rights groups have hit out at Donald Trump’s millionaire sons, Donald Jnr and Eric for cruelty after photographs emerged on the internet of them standing next to animals shot dead during a hunting holiday in Zimbabwe last year.
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