Author: Oxpeckers Reporters

[caption id="attachment_1070" align="alignleft" width="299"] The alleged kingpin of the syndicate was arrested in front of the Pretoria North Magistrate’s Court. [/caption] South Africa's elite police investigation unit known as the Hawks...

[caption id="attachment_1060" align="alignleft" width="370"] SANParks chairperson Kuseni Dlamini[/caption]A controversial application for a luxury hotel development in the south of the Kruger National Park, linked to chairperson of the South African...

DNA profiling has proved a game changer in securing harsh sentences for poachers and rhino horn smugglers, writes Louise de Bruin [caption id="attachment_1047" align="alignleft" width="765"] Less than 0,1mg of horn is...

SANParks wants to move rhinos out of the Kruger to protect them from poachers. Contracts were signed with three hunting outfits based in the Northern Cape...

South Africa is losing a species about which very little is known. Louise de Bruin talks to two vets whose mission is to save the rhinos...

On the eve of his departure from the Police Ministry, Nathi Mthethwa released to Oxpeckers consolidated data on court cases involving alleged rhino poachers...

The theft of 112 pieces of rhino horn from the conservation authority is the centre of high drama among senior parks officials, reports Sydney Masinga...

Oxpeckers' work on rhino poaching features in the Art and Science of Data-driven Journalism, published by the Tow Center of the School of Journalism...