Kruger hotel: Scoping approved
The Department of Environmental Affairs has given the go-ahead for an EIA to be done on the controversial Radisson Blue hotel in the south of the Kruger National Park. What...
23 January, 2014
Author: Fiona Macleod
1 Suspect poacher killed, 2 wounded, 22/11/2013
1 Suspected rhino poacher was killed, and 2 were wounded and arrested near Mooiplaas in the Kruger National Park on 22 November 2013. At about 19h00 rangers made contact with...
23 November, 2013
1 Suspected poacher killed
Field rangers in the Kruger National Park had contact with 3 suspected poachers near Crocodile Bridge in the south of the reserve on 26 October 2013. During the contact, 1...
18 November, 2013
United States grows as hub in global rhino horn smuggling
Rhino horn smugglers in the US hide behind an exception for trade in antiques that are over 100 years old. Oxpeckers tracked down some of the prime suspects abusing this...
10 October, 2013
Mozambique poachers set sights on Kruger ivory
Ivory poachers targeting Kruger's big tuskers are using the same smuggling routes set up to launder rhino horns to Asian countries...
08 October, 2013
Chinese connections in African ivory & rhino horn markets
For the first time, journalists from mainland China worked with African journalists on an undercover investigation into the Chinese connection with ivory and rhino horns market in South Africa and...
03 October, 2013
5 Heavily armed suspected poachers arrested in the Rietvlei Nature Reserve
5 Heavily armed suspected rhino poachers arrested in Rietvlei Nature Reserve near Pretoria. One of the suspects was out on bail after being charged with rhino poaching earlier this year....
30 September, 2013
1 “High value” rhino poaching kingpin arrested
1 "High value" suspect arrested in a joint anti-poaching operation in the Cork Trust, outside the Kruger National Park, by Kruger rangers supported by members of Pathfinder Risk Management,SAPS Forensics...
17 September, 2013
4 Rhino poaching suspects arrested near Tembe Elephant Park in KwaZulu-Natal
4 Suspects arrested in the Bhekabantu District outside Tembe Elephant Park on 10 September. The four, a Mozambican national and three South Africans, are believed to be Scratchy tadacip prescription...
10 September, 2013
2 Suspected poachers arrested near Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal
1 Suspect arrested inside Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park, a provincial state reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday 9 September. Two alleged accomplices managed to escape, but one was subsequently arrested....
09 September, 2013