ZOO PARK was fittingly the venue for Namibia’s first anti-rhino poaching protest, bringing together more than 60 demonstrators fighting the cause of the threatened species yesterday.
“Now that it looks as if the eyes of the poachers are turning towards Namibia, we want to send them a strong message that we have zero tolerance for poachers, and that they will be caught and sent to jail,” high-school pupil Nita Pallett said during the protest.
She was joined by several other pupils from the Waldorf School and St George’s Diocesan School in making sure the public and government realise they are fighting to ensure that rhinos form a part of Namibia environmental legacy for generations to come.
The protest took place during the ongoing bail application of three Chinese nationals, who were caught at the airport with suitcases stuffed with 14 rhino horns and a leopard skin late in March this year, on their way to China.
During the bail application last week, a law enforcement official testified that DNA tests had shown that the rhino horns originated from Namibia.
Dave Weeks, owner of Bushwhackers, was one of the people to protest the granting of bail to the Chinese during the hearing in the Windhoek Magistrates Court in Katutura on Friday…
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