Tigers à la carte
Captive tigers are big business in France. A new law to ban wild animals in circuses could change this – or end up driving the market underground. Guillaume Pajot investigates...
12 March, 2021
Oxpeckers Investigations
New Indonesian law trumps wildlife smugglers
Using the Quarantine Act to prosecute a wildlife-smuggling syndicate gave the biggest verdict ever. Will it work in other trafficking cases? Rezza Aji Pratama investigates...
11 September, 2020
Is Mabola open for mining?
Indian company Atha-Africa Ventures is going ahead with an application to change land use at the Mabola protected area to open it to mining. Julia Thomas investigates...
18 May, 2018
Kruger’s contested borderlands
Game reserves are being developed along the Mozambique border to create a buffer zone against poaching. But displaced communities say it’s a land grab...
06 April, 2018
The dilemma of Swaziland’s horns
Why did Swaziland submit a last-minute proposal asking CITES to approve an experimental ‘pilot project’ to sell its stockpiled rhino horns? What does this mean for the COP17 conference? Yolandi...
09 September, 2016
SADC backs ‘shoot to kill’ strategy
SADC report reveals how member states favour an anti-poaching strategy with far-reaching consequences for the independence of national judiciaries, writes Lawrence Seretse...
02 September, 2016
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
We chat rhino horn
Online selling of rhino horn products is booming. Most of the trading takes place in Fujian Province, reports Hongqiao Liu...
03 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