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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Anton Mzimba, the chief ranger at a reserve in South Africa, had received several death threats. But he tried not to get caught up in the danger warnings and recalled working to protect rhinos for the greater good, according to an interview he gave last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I do, I don\u2019t do for my own sake,\u201d Mr Mzimba said in the 2021 interview. \u201cI\u2019m doing this for the world, for my children\u2019s children, so that one day when I hang up my boots \u2014 when I\u2019m in retire when I die \u2013 will enjoy the wildlife.\u201d<\/p>\n

Africa\u2019s close-knit conservation community has reeled since Mr Mzimba was gunned down in front of his family on July 26 at their home. His wife was also shot but survived. The killing has fueled concerns that criminal syndicates could become bolder and more violent in their efforts to secure illegal wildlife products.<\/p>\n

Mr Mzimba, 42, was the senior ranger at the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, a 206-square-mile reserve in the Greater Kruger Countryside, home to elephant, rhino, lion, leopard and cheetah. In an environment plagued by poaching and corruption, Mr. Mzimba was known for being incorruptible \u2013 a staunch conservationist.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to speak on the front lines, speak to Anton Mzimba,\u201d said Ruben de Kock, operations manager of LEAD Ranger, a professional training group. \u201cHe was the ultimate ranger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Available by phone, Brig. Gen. Selvy Mohlala, a spokesman for the police unit leading the investigation into Mr Mzimba\u2019s murder, said that \u201cwe do not know if the attack had anything to do with his work or personal life.\u201d<\/p>\n

But given the number of serious job-related threats against Mr Mzimba and his efforts to thwart crime syndicates, Andrew Campbell, executive director of the Game Rangers\u2019 Association of Africa, said that seems the most likely motive.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mzimba\u2019s commitment to wildlife conservation \u201cdefinitely\u201d appears to have been a factor, said Edwin Pierce, the Timbavati warden. \u201cAnton was a man of integrity, a man who did not deviate from protecting the rhinos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat syndicates actually did this means Anton posed a significant threat to them,\u201d added Mr. Pierce.<\/p>\n

Rangers around the world risk their lives every day, but those in Africa are particularly at risk. Elephant and rhino poachers are always armed, and clashes between militias and rangers are common in politically unstable areas like the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n

Of the 565 African rangers known to have died in the line of duty since 2011, Mr Campbell said 52 percent of the deaths were homicides. The number of deaths has also risen, he said, with a record high of 92 rangers last year, half of which were due to homicide.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Mzimba\u2019s death stands out as \u201can escalation from the norm,\u201d said Mr Campbell. \u201cNow these syndicates are comfortable literally coming in and making mob-style hits.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also likely, added Mr Campbell, that Mr Mzimba was targeted because of his high profile in the conservation and wildlife community. He was named Field Ranger of the Year and is the protagonist of the upcoming documentary Rhino Man. He also served as a technical advisor with the Global Conservation Corps, where he helped initiate a program that now connects 10,000 South African students weekly with their natural heritage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnton was one of the kindest, gentlest, most loving people, but he was also a warrior,\u201d said John Jurko II, co-director of Rhino Man. \u201cHe was out there defending these rhinos from serious threats from poachers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Mozambique, Mr Mzimba moved to South Africa with his family in search of better opportunities. His career in conservation began rather accidentally when a job removing invasive plants took him to Timbavati. Mr. Mzimba was only 17, but his work ethic caught the eye of the reserve\u2019s director, who offered him a full-time position.<\/p>\n

Within a decade, Mr. Mzimba became Chief of the Ranger Corps in Timbavati. \u201cThis was a person who really made it from the bottom up,\u201d said Mr. de Kock.<\/p>\n

Mr Mzimba often said he considered protecting wildlife to be his duty as a Christian and he was also known for his loyalty.<\/p>\n

When Mr Mzimba started work in Timbavati in 1998, the poachers he arrested were mostly poor men who snuck into the reserve to hunt animals for food. However, in the 2010s, organized crime syndicates aggressively pursued rhino horns, which were in high demand in China, Vietnam, and other Asian countries. \u201cWe went from poaching and killing animals for a living to killing animals for money,\u201d Mr Mzimba said last year.<\/p>\n

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, South Africa was home to 75 percent of the world\u2019s remaining 23,562 white and black rhinos in 2017. At least 9,353 of South Africa\u2019s rhinos have been killed for their horns in the past 13 years. Although poaching has declined from a peak of 1,215 rhino lost in 2014, it remains a major problem: 451 rhinos were killed last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say we hold the fort,\u201d said Elise Serfontein, the founding director of StopRhinoPoaching.com, a South Africa-based non-profit conservation organization. \u201cBut the effort to hold that line comes at a tremendous cost financially, and at a tremendous physical and mental cost for the rangers and reserve management.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rangers regularly receive death threats for their work, Mr Pierce said, and Mr Mzimba was no exception. \u201cThe poaching syndicates were trying to break him emotionally and psychologically and he wouldn\u2019t break,\u201d Mr de Kock said.<\/p>\n

Last spring, Mr Mzimba opened an intimidation list with local police to report multiple threats related to his wildlife conservation work. \u201cWe had hoped that those who threatened Anton\u2019s life would be arrested and charged with conspiracy to murder,\u201d Mr. Pierce said.<\/p>\n

According to Mr Pierce and Mr de Kock, Mr Mzimba learned in May that his name was on a more serious hit list at the time. Mr de Kock and his wife offered to let Mr Mzimba and his family live temporarily at their home in another part of the country, but Mr Mzimba declined, telling Mr de Kock he needed to stay close to his fellow rangers.<\/p>\n

According to Brigadier Mohlala, the police spokesman, two people came to Mr Mzimba\u2019s home on July 26, claiming their vehicle was broken and asking for water. Mr Mzimba was working outside on his car and when his son went to get water they shot Mr Mzimba. They also shot his wife, who is still in the hospital.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made, Brigadier Mohlala said, \u201cbut it\u2019s safe to say we haven\u2019t dropped the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Mzimba is not the first high-profile conservationist to be killed in what appears to be a targeted assassination. In 2017, for example, Wayne Lotter, co-director of the PAMS Foundation, an anti-poaching group in Tanzania that had been investigating the ivory trade, was shot and killed in a car on his way home from Dar es Salaam airport. \u201cWhen we lost Wayne, it was definitely a huge eye-opener for us to see just how far people would go if you got in their way,\u201d said Krissie Clark, founding director of PAMS.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Lt. Col. Leroy Bruwer, a South African police detective specializing in investigating rhino poaching syndicates, was also fatally shot while driving to work. Last year, Bajila Obed Kofa, a senior Kenya Wildlife Service official, was shot dead while driving home after taking his daughter to school.<\/p>\n

South Africa in particular is already suffering from \u201cenormously high homicide rates linked to politics and organized crime,\u201d said Julian Rademeyer, director for East and South Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Now there are fears such targeted killings could also become the norm for those working in conservation.<\/p>\n

If Mr Mzimba\u2019s killers are not brought to justice, Mr Rademeyer added, it will have a chilling effect on other rangers and \u201csend a message that things like this go unpunished and the people involved are virtually untouchable.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Institute for Security Studies, only 19 percent of murder cases in South Africa are solved. Mr Pierce said he and his colleagues have been \u201cfrustrated\u201d so far with what they see as a lack of urgency and \u201cslowness\u201d in the investigation. \u201cAnton\u2019s legacy needs to be honored and we need to get to the bottom of it,\u201d said Mr. Pierce. \u201cWe hope this will be considered a high priority case.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll murder cases will be treated as high priority crimes,\u201d said Brigadier Mohlala. \u201cAs soon as we get something, we will definitely arrest quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

By<\/b><\/p>\n

Henry Simpson<\/p>\n

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