Increased access to the Internet is facilitating rampant online wildlife trade in South Africa. Roxanne Joseph investigates why it is such an attractive marketplace
Oscar Nkala investigates how corrupt judicial processes in Zimbabwe are helping wildlife traffickers get off scot free
Increased access to the Internet is facilitating rampant online wildlife trade in South Africa. Roxanne Joseph investigates why it is such an attractive marketplace
Oscar Nkala investigates how corrupt judicial processes in Zimbabwe are helping wildlife traffickers get off scot free
News of the arrest of Lucílio Matsinhe was received with shock because he is the son of a 'liberator of the homeland' and former minister of security. Nazira Suleimane reports...
02 Oct, 2019
Modern investigative techniques used to solve human crimes are now helping to catch wildlife poachers, smugglers and traffickers. Léa Surugue investigates...
25 Sep, 2019
How the online illegal trade of rhino horn works, and how innovative technology is being used to disrupt the market ...
01 Aug, 2019
Outrage greeted the early release of notorious Thai trafficker Chumlong Lemtongthai, who used false South African hunting permits to launder rhino horns. Simon Bloch reports...
13 Sep, 2018
Understanding and dealing with tremors during veterinary treatment is essential to securing the species, reports Louise de Bruin...
27 Jun, 2017
The hunting of a rhino by a Vietnamese client with the ‘Musina Mafia’ set the tone for the treatment of the endangered species at CITES CoP17, writes Yolandi Groenewald...
05 Oct, 2016
American photojournalist Martin Totland travelled to the borderlands between Mozambique and Kruger National Park to investigate the latest in the anti-poaching war...
01 Jun, 2016
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 Jan, 2016
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 Sep, 2015
Behind Namibia's poaching crisis lies a deadly combination of corruption, drought, Chinese mining and construction ventures, and land-hungry communal cattle farmers...
17 Jul, 2015
Two international journalists investigating rhino poaching in Mozambique were arrested for espionage...
17 Feb, 2015
An historic deal to tackle wildlife crime in Mozambique has been signed between the Mozambican government and the Peace Parks Foundation...
29 Oct, 2014
Moving rhinos out of the Kruger will go ahead, says SANParks, but due diligence is essential...
02 Oct, 2014
Oxpeckers Rhino Court Cases interactive map provides an easy, accessible way to keep track of cases involving rhino poaching...
21 Aug, 2014
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 Aug, 2014
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 Aug, 2014
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