Author: Oxpeckers Reporters

Hongqiao Liu, one of China’s youngest environmental reporters, was an Oxpeckers Fellow in 2013 and spent three months in South Africa investigating wildlife trafficking links...

03 November, 2014

[caption id="attachment_1275" align="alignleft" width="340"] Detector dogs can find even a tiny molecule of rhino horn. This dog and handler are part of the Endangered Wildlife Trust Rhino Project, which focuses...

01 November, 2014

An historic deal to tackle wildlife crime in Mozambique has been signed between the Mozambican government and the Peace Parks Foundation...

29 October, 2014

Controversial South African hunter Dawie Groenewald and his brother, Janneman, charged in the US with fraudulently hunting 'problem' rhinos and laundering the horns on the black market...

24 October, 2014

Oxpeckers associate Estacios Valoi reports that at least five elephants were killed in 48 hours in just one reserve in northern Mozambique. He photographed local villagers cutting meat off the...

09 October, 2014

Several suspects linked to rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park have been arrested in Mozambique in recent weeks. [caption id="attachment_1131" align="alignleft" width="370"] Patrolling the border fence between the Kruger and...

08 October, 2014

Moving rhinos out of the Kruger will go ahead, says SANParks, but due diligence is essential...

02 October, 2014

[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...

20 September, 2014

[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...

08 September, 2014