Read Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade Online
Authors: Julian Rademeyer
Tags: #A terrifying true story of greed, #corruption, #depravity and ruthless criminal enterprise…
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Viera, Tony
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and diplomatic immunity
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economy and environment
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Windhoek Observer
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A wounded poacher, Hardlife Nkomo, is questioned by game scouts. A hundred metres away lies a bloodied .303 rifle fitted with a silencer
Blondie Leathem and Magotshe Siziba – his former Zimparks sergeant – discuss a possible incursion by poachers into the Bubye Valley Conservancy. The two men have been at the forefront of Zimbabwe’s ‘rhino wars’ for the past twenty-five years
A .375 hunting rifle, fitted with a custom-made silencer, which was stolen during a violent farm attack near Musina in South Africa, and later used to poach rhinos in Zimbabwe
Another silenced rifle was found by Zimbabwean police in a hidden compartment in the tailgate of a South African–registered bakkie