Lake Malawi in danger
A multimedia investigation by Mark Olalde exposes the threats Lake Malawi faces from climate change and overuse ...
23 February, 2016
Highlights
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
From turtle butcher to saviour
A convicted turtle poacher turned the tables on poaching statistics in Africa. Instead, he uses art and education to show how protection of endangered wildlife can provide a more...
07 July, 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
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
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
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