Here is Philip Barclay on  how Zimbabwe's environment and wildlife is suffering.

".......But its environment and wildlife is not being safeguarded. There are not enough tourists to pay for the protection of gigantic national parks. And what budget is allocated to the parks’ authority is spent – as ever in Zimbabwe – on luxury German and Japanese vehicles for politically affiliated top dogs in Harare. Nothing left to help the bottom dogs – the painted variety - that I watched this week lolling together in loyal, wagging packs, psyching themselves up for another collective hunt.

Zimbabwe’s park rangers are decent and skilled men. But on a salary of a dollar a month, lacking food, water, fuel, they cannot stand against better-resourced squads of poachers. In this law and order vacuum, created by the collapse of tourism, the disreputable and the criminal have flourished......."

Foreign Secretary David Miliband blogged about his conversation with the UK's Ambassador in Zimbabwe last week.

And the Los Angeles Times has written a long piece about our and other bloggers: "Zimbabwe bloggers turn a light on their troubled country" 

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