Ntombi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ntombi/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ntombi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ntombi/ 32 32 Rare black rhino poached in Zimbabwe https://jjcornish.com/2016/04/rare-black-rhino-poached-zimbabwe/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/04/rare-black-rhino-poached-zimbabwe/ Game wardens in Zimbabwe have killed a rare black rhino that’s a favourite of tourists after it was shot and severely wounded by poachers, The rhino named Ntombi had four bullet wounds in her legs and shoulder and her horns hacked off. ends intro Eight-year old Ntombi – whose name means woman in Ndebele – […]

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]]> Game wardens in Zimbabwe have killed a rare black rhino that’s a favourite of tourists after it was shot and severely wounded by poachers,

The rhino named Ntombi had four bullet wounds in her legs and shoulder and her horns hacked off.

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Eight-year old Ntombi – whose name means woman in Ndebele – was living with her 13-month-old calf in the Zimbabwe’s Matopo National Park.

Parks authorities say the bullet wounds from an AK 47 had broken her legs and caused unendurable pain.

She was immobile and unable to get to food and water.

Her sawn-off horns have been recovered.

In Zimbabwe, where the rhino population is estimated at more than 800, killing a rhino carries a mandatory nine-year sentence upon conviction.

The World Wildlife Fund said in a January report that 50 rhinos had been killed in Zimbabwe in 2015, double the figure for the previous year.

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