Cleaning up the mining mess
With about 6,000 abandoned mines across South Africa, regulators are searching for answers to irresponsible mine closure. Mark Olalde reports...
11 July, 2018
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‘Trojan horse’ of Namibia’s rhino poaching crisis?
A mysterious hunting lodge with a backdoor into the Etosha National Park provides a possible key to the decimation of Namibia’s critically endangered black rhinos...
11 August, 2016
MalaMala’s secret millions
Two years after SA’s most expensive land claim settlement was concluded, post-restitution arrangements for the MalaMala Game Reserve are taking shape. Who is really benefiting?...
21 December, 2015
Namibia’s national soccer medic linked to rhino poaching and murder
Windhoek chiropractor Gerson Kandjii faces criminal charges related to the poaching of four black rhinos and the murder of retired German industrialist Reinhard Schmidt. John Grobler investigates...
06 March, 2015
Dogs sniff out record rhino horn stash
[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
Standoff at Mpumalanga parks
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...
07 June, 2014
Community project loses its first rhino
A community game reserve lost its first rhino to poachers this week. Franz Fuls reports that even this model of the green economy is vulnerable to poaching ...
17 April, 2014
Wildlife trade & textbook economics
Oxpeckers adviser Alejandro Nadal casts a seasoned economist's eye on debate about wildlife trade policy: “It needs to take into account the fact that markets do not behave in accordance...
27 February, 2014