Mapping justice: Use this map to track developments in rhino poaching court cases across South Africa

LATEST RHINO COURT CASES INVESTIGATIONS

  • 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

    Oxpeckers Reporters
    13 Sep, 2018

  • 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

    Oxpeckers Reporters
    13 Sep, 2018

  • Six years and €50-million since its creation, Oscar Nkala visits the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area to find out what impact it has had on wildlife and communities...

    14 Dec, 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

  • 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 Jul, 2014

  • The theft of 112 pieces of rhino horn from the conservation authority is the centre of high drama among senior parks officials, reports Sydney Masinga...

    07 Jun, 2014

  • A community game reserve lost its first rhino to poachers this week. Franz Fuls reports that even this model of the green economy is vulnerable to poaching ...

    17 Apr, 2014

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