Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation

Government says stakeholders in environmental conservation should come up with tree planting programmes to help mitigate against climate change and global warming which is directly affecting the country.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police Support Unit has given a hand in supporting the country’s tree planting programme, with 3 000 police officers planting trees under the force’s 2012 tree planting week.

The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has relaunched  a partnership with Victoria Falls Steam Train Company (VFSTC) in an effort to introduce a wider variety of activities in the tourism sector, amid concerns that Victoria Falls is lacking in entertainment facilities at night..

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Management says it has embarked on a programme to resuscitate boreholes at Hwange National Park to avoid a shortage of water during the dry season which resulted in the death of more than 80 elephants and 25 buffalos within a period of three months last year.

The construction of a hotel on a wetland in the capital has exposed ignorance on the part of the planning authorities on the laws that protect the environment.

The tourism sector says the introduction of the Aviation Infrastructure Development Fund Levy by the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) is tantamount to giving neighboring countries a competitive advantage as they have not been increasing any levies that will make their destinations more expensive.

Cabinet has approved and adopted all the recommendations of the Working Party of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the hosting of the UNWTO General Assembly to be co-hosted by Zimbabwe and Zambia on the 26th of August next year.

The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has been accused of being ineffective in their mandate to protect the environment, despite having all the legal instruments required to carry out its mandate.