March 2022

2 Minutes

Top Story

400 million litres raw sewage pumped into Zim rivers daily

March 20, 2022 0 Comment

ECC Champion A survey recently commissioned by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) on water quality in the country’s water bodies revealed that about 400 million liters of raw sewage are being pumped daily into...

2 Minutes

Politics The law

Zimbabwe lays down national wetlands policy

March 20, 2022 0 Comment

ECC Champion The Zimbabwean government has sprung to the defense of wetlands through a National Wetlands Policy document whose objective among others is to enhance and maintain functions and values derived from wetlands in...

4 Minutes

Top Story

How to identify wetlands in Zimbabwe

March 20, 2022 0 Comment

ECC Champion Wetland degradation and, in some cases, complete wetland loss has become a major environmental issue of concern in both rural and urban areas. Over the years, Zimbabwe’s wetlands in most communal and...

2 Minutes

Top Story

Mhandamabwe residents move to reclaim problematic gully

March 20, 2022 0 Comment

Ruvarashe Gwindingwe Concerned Mhandamabwe Growth Point residents are planting banana groves, herbs and shrubs along a problematic gully which threatens their houses and the environment, EnviroPress can report. The meandering gully, which developed as...

3 Minutes

Top Story

What climate change does to Zim farmers

March 20, 2022 0 Comment

Sukuoluhle Ndlovu Zimbabwe has not been spared from the effects of global warming which have resulted in episodes of drought coupled with changing rainfall patterns and water levels decreasing. Rains have become so erratic...

3 Minutes

Business

Lake Kariba overfishing: Zimbabwe Zambia agree to act

March 18, 2022 0 Comment

ECC Champion Over the years, overfishing has characterized Zimbabwe’s biggest water body Lake Kariba which is jointly shared with the country’s northern neighbour of Zambia. This has prompted Zimbabwean and Zambian authorities to act...

3 Minutes

Business Top Story

Shorter wet seasons a bane for mushroom gatherers

March 18, 2022 0 Comment

ECC Champion The shorter than usual rainy seasons being experienced these years have had a devastating impact on the emergence of naturally-occurring mushrooms which have traditionally played a livelihoods role in rural communities. Wild...

3 Minutes

NEWS

Vultures, the environmental cleaners that are diminishing like mist

March 18, 2022 0 Comment

Patrick Chitongo If there was a law that required payment on unsolicited services, then several governments could be in arrears of over billions of dollars owed to vultures for their cleaning services. There are...

3 Minutes

The law Top Story

ZELA calls for establishment of environmental courts

March 16, 2022 0 Comment

Macdonald Mudzaki As Zimbabwe grapples with environmental problems and the unprecedented effects of climate change, the country’s legal structure is under scrutiny with increasing calls being made for the establishment of specialized courts that deal with environmental...

3 Minutes

Business

Mukumbi credited for aiding Marula tree conservation

March 16, 2022 0 Comment

Moses Ziyambi ZAKA – A traditional Marula brew called Mukumbi is one of the reasons why the tree has become one of the well-conserved tree among rural communities that value traditional customs. In Zaka,...