22 June 2022 Story By Josphat Makaza and Natally Gombakomba Stakeholders who attended the just ended two-day training on Local Environmental Action Plans (LEAPs) in Marange have been encouraged to take up responsibilities in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the processes to ensure the environment is protected for the benefit of the present and […]
World Environment Day 5 June 2022 A reflection by ZELA to mark the World Environment Day The 2022 World Environment Day campaign #OnlyOneEarth calls for collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore our planet. The commemoration of the World Environment Day is of great significance for developing countries like Zimbabwe where […]
Date of Issue: 05 June 2022 Today we commemorate the World Environment Day 2022 whose theme, ‘Only One Earth’, focuses on living sustainably in harmony with nature. The year 2022 is quite significant as it marks 50 years since the 1972 Stockholm Conference that led to the formation of the United Nations Environment Programme. A key output from […]
23 May 2022 Compiled by Cosmas Sunguro Mining Communities are known to be resource rich and ordinarily there are expected to be economically developed. Of late, this has not been the case as stagnancy and sometimes this is due to political bickering when politicians jostle to benefit from mineral resources. Living in one’s community sometimes […]
April 2022 Policy and legislative gaps in the gemstone sector have resulted in the flourishing of Illicit Financial Flows that are proving to be highly costly to the country, a recent report has established. The report titled Scope and Nature of Illicit Flows in Zimbabwe’s Gemstone Sector by the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) established […]
27 May 2022 The African Elephant Conference was held in the Hwange National Park from the 23rd to the 26th of May 2022 at the Hwange Safari Lodge. The Conference was hosted under the theme a “New and Better Deal for Elephant Conservation, Tourism, Rural Communities in Key African Range States.” This watershed Conference was […]
20 May 2022 Compiled by Cosmas Sunguro-ZIDAWU Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs) in mining communities face a plethora of challenges in carrying out their work. These threats sometimes range from intimidation to loss of life. This was revealed during an Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) side session on EHRDs in Capetown on 11th May 2022. This […]
22 May 2022 The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) will tomorrow join national, regional, and international wildlife conservation stakeholders at the African Elephant Summit to be hosted in the iconic Hwange National Park from the 23rd to the 26th of May 2022. The summit to be graced by Ambassadors from China and Japan will also host leading […]
20 May 2022 The year 2022 is critical for Zimbabwe’s diamond governance discourse as the country is being reviewed under the Kimberley Process (KP) Certification Scheme (KPCS). The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) was created in 2003 to curb the trade of diamonds by rebel and dissident government groups using gems to finance their operations. […]
16 May 2022 Compiled by Josphat Makaza- Chiadzwa Community Development Trust In 2020 Alrosa Zimbabwe engaged the local leadership in ward 24 with the intention of mining diamonds. The officials met with a few individuals who granted the mine a social licence to operate. They informed the community representatives that there are diamonds in ward […]