Bling king accused in Namibian rhino poaching
John Grobler reports on the sensational arrest of a young Windhoek businessman and his alleged role in the slaughter of critically endangered black rhinos...
27 June, 2016
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The uphill battle to save rhinos in Mozambique
American photojournalist Martin Totland travelled to the borderlands between Mozambique and Kruger National Park to investigate the latest in the anti-poaching war...
01 June, 2016
‘Drought could kill more rhinos than poaching’
Conservationists are warning that South Africa’s drought might represent a bigger threat to rhinos, and wildlife in general, than poaching. Yolandi Groenewald reports...
18 January, 2016
Chinese rhino poaching suspects in court
Details about the origins of a rhino poaching syndicate and their modus operandi are emerging in a Namibian court case. By Oxpeckers Reporters in Windhoek...
21 September, 2015
Caught in the crossfire: how cattle and Chinese mining interests are killing off Namibia’s black rhinos
Behind Namibia's poaching crisis lies a deadly combination of corruption, drought, Chinese mining and construction ventures, and land-hungry communal cattle farmers...
17 July, 2015
Journalists arrested on rhino poaching investigation
Two international journalists investigating rhino poaching in Mozambique were arrested for espionage...
17 February, 2015
Mapping rhino poaching court cases data
Oxpeckers Rhino Court Cases interactive map provides an easy, accessible way to keep track of cases involving rhino poaching...
21 August, 2014
Kruger rhinos to Northern Cape
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...
13 August, 2014
Vets to the rhinos’ rescue
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...
01 August, 2014
Cases on the court roll
On the eve of his departure from the Police Ministry, Nathi Mthethwa released to Oxpeckers consolidated data on court cases involving alleged rhino poachers...
18 July, 2014