In 2013, it was reported that poachers in Zimbabwe used cyanide to kill elephants at a nature reserve. Original estimates…
According to reports from various criminal justice programs, a crackdown on red-light districts of Zimbabwe has led to the sex…
The Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe reported in May 2013 that up to $50 Million worth of gold was being…
An illegal logger told a reporter that he is able to make around $150 a month from illegally cutting down 10 trees in Zimbabwe.
Government officials estimate that illegal logging in the country causes several millions of dollars in lost tax revenue.
Custom officials in India reported seizing 48,600 crates of conflict diamonds in Surat and Mumbai in 2011. The crates of diamonds did not have the proper Kimberly Process Certification and was believed to have been smuggled out of Zimbabwe. The diamonds were worth $1.75 Million.
Up to $1 Billion in potential revenue from the extraction of diamonds in Zimbabwe was reported to be missing as of 2011, according to the country’s Finance Minister and civic leaders.
Wildlife trafficking of Rhinos led to 95 percent of all rhino poaching in Africa between 2006 and 2009 to take place in Zimbabwe (235 Rhinos killed) and South Africa (210 Rhinos killed).
The killings of rhinos in Africa was at a 15-year high in 2009. In addition, in 2009 there were 3 times as many rhinos being poached per month in South Africa and Zimbabwe than the average of poached rhinos for all of Africa between 2000 and 205.
The black market diamond smuggling in Zimbabwe could generate $200 Million a month for the country if it was properly regulated and taken out of the hands of the army, according to Human Rights Watch.
Around 120 rhinos were killed by wildlife traffickers in Zimbabwe between March 2008 and June 2009. The rhinos were killed by the traffickers in order to meet the demand of China’s black market trade in rhino horns. There are between 400 to 700 rhinos left in Zimbabwe.