SA breeders buck the system
The sale of wildlife from South Africa to Angolan national parks sparked a row over the spread of non-indigenous species. It also raised renewed fears about Angola's critically endangered giant...
16 March, 2016
Author: Oxpeckers Reporters
The deadly rubies of Montepuez
Montepuez ruby mine has been turned into a 'militarised zone' where villagers are beaten and illegal miners are killed, reports Estacio Valoi...
15 March, 2016
Namibia’s secret ivory business
Oxpeckers Associate Shi Yi set out to investigate Chinese links in Namibia’s poaching crisis, and ended up in the middle of a sting operation that nabbed a former policeman...
14 March, 2016
Vietnam warning follows Oxpeckers exposé
In a move directly linked to an Oxpeckers investigation, the Vietnamese government has warned tour operators not to support illegal wildlife product processing workshops...
03 March, 2016
Lake Malawi in danger
A multimedia investigation by Mark Olalde exposes the threats Lake Malawi faces from climate change and overuse ...
23 February, 2016
Saving the world’s oldest protected estuary
A huge environmental restoration project aims to save one of the world’s most important estuaries threatened by climate change. Report by Yolandi Groenewald...
22 February, 2016
The heat is on Africa’s health
[caption id="attachment_53" align="alignright" width="248"] Leading message from participants in the annual People's Climate March in New York. Photo © https://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/[/caption] Heat exhaustion is likely to occur when the human body's temperature...
16 February, 2016
SA makes global history with highest temperatures
[caption id="attachment_6287" align="alignnone" width="2836"] October 27 2015 will be remembered as the record-breaking hottest October day on Earth.[/caption] This new high was set in Vredendal, a small town in the Western...
16 February, 2016
2015 the hottest year ever recorded
[caption id="attachment_3876" align="alignright" width="300"] The study projects an increase in warmer temperatures of 4-6 ℃ over the subtropics and 3-5 ℃ over the tropics by the end of the century....
16 February, 2016
SA’s maize crop down 36% due to drought
[caption id="attachment_3882" align="alignright" width="300"] This season's rainfall, compared to the past 35 years. © WFP-VAM[/caption] South Africa has issued a preliminary forecast of maize production for the coming harvest of 7.4...
15 February, 2016