The green panopticon: When saving rhinos means watching people
Tulani Ngwenya investigates how US dollars and hi-tech security have turned South Africa’s game parks into a fortress frontier...
23 February, 2026
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Dawie Groenewald’s Botswana hunting dispute
A leaked recording, court orders and company records place the controversial South African at the centre of a high-stakes struggle over a lucrative Okavango hunting concession...
09 January, 2026
Where is Zimbabwe’s cyanide queen?
Police are keeping mum about the extradition of Li Song, wanted in connection with the use of poison in illegal wildlife trade. Pamenus Tuso investigates...
08 May, 2025
Open doors: Official complicity in cross-border rhino horn poaching and smuggling
An Oxpeckers reporter speaks to syndicate insiders about the role of corrupt law enforcement officials enabling cross-border illegal trade in rhino horns...
24 March, 2025
Nigerian link in global gorilla trafficking
Daniel Stiles investigates organised transnational networks smuggling great apes from Africa via Nigeria...
07 February, 2025
Unravelling the threads of snaring in Kruger park
Incidents of wildlife snaring have rocketed in South Africa’s flagship national park in the past four years. What’s driving the surge, and how are conservationists facing up to it?...
29 October, 2024
Silent extinction: Zimbabwe’s hotbed of environmental crime
Poaching and illegal coal mining threaten the future of Matabeleland’s elephant population. Nokuthaba Mathema investigates ...
04 June, 2024
Why wildlife crimes are easily committed in South Sudan
South Sudan has a Wildlife Act, but lacks the capacity to enforce the law effectively. Diing Magot and Denis Morris Mimbugbe investigate for #WildEye Eastern Africa...
15 September, 2023
A burning issue for Burundi’s reserves
Bushfires in Burundi’s protected areas are prohibited by law, but runaway infernos are threatening the reserves and contributing to climate change. Espoir Iradukunda investigates...
17 August, 2023
DRC stockpiles fuel illegal wildlife trade
Ivory and other wild contraband seized by authorities is being returned to the black market in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jonas Kiriko investigates why...
10 August, 2023