Rhino Courtcases Map

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

LATEST RHINO COURT CASES INVESTIGATIONS

Calls for a special wildlife crime court in Namibia
Namibia’s over-burdened criminal justice system is struggling to keep up with rhino-poaching court cases. Is a special wildlife crime court the answer? John Grobler investigates
Oxpeckers Reporters
24 Feb, 2021

Mozambique’s tough task tackling rhino crimes
The release of 83 rhino poachers from South African jails did not help the uphill battle faced by prosecutors dealing with environmental crimes in Mozambique, reports Estacio Valoi
Oxpeckers Reporters
16 Mar, 2021

Calls for a special wildlife crime court in Namibia
Namibia’s over-burdened criminal justice system is struggling to keep up with rhino-poaching court cases. Is a special wildlife crime court the answer? John Grobler investigates
Oxpeckers Reporters
24 Feb, 2021

Mozambique’s tough task tackling rhino crimes
The release of 83 rhino poachers from South African jails did not help the uphill battle faced by prosecutors dealing with environmental crimes in Mozambique, reports Estacio Valoi
Oxpeckers Reporters
16 Mar, 2021

Too low, too slow: SA’s rhino convictions

The real war on poaching happens in the courtroom – but the wheels of justice grind slowly in many rhino-related cases, writes Jacqueline Cochrane...
19 Feb, 2021
The perfect rhino crime

Oscar Nkala investigates how corrupt judicial processes in Zimbabwe are helping wildlife traffickers get off scot free...
13 Jan, 2021
Son of Frelimo war veteran arrested in possession of rhino horns

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
The fight to bring a deadly illegal industry to justice

Modern investigative techniques used to solve human crimes are now helping to catch wildlife poachers, smugglers and traffickers. Léa Surugue investigates...
25 Sep, 2019
Tech solutions for rhino trade

How the online illegal trade of rhino horn works, and how innovative technology is being used to disrupt the market ...
01 Aug, 2019
Fury at release of rhino ‘pseudo-hunt’ kingpin

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
Why rhinos shiver and shake

Understanding and dealing with tremors during veterinary treatment is essential to securing the species, reports Louise de Bruin...
27 Jun, 2017
Business as usual for rhinos

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
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 Jun, 2016
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 Jun, 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 Jan, 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 Sep, 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 Jul, 2015
Journalists arrested on rhino poaching investigation

Two international journalists investigating rhino poaching in Mozambique were arrested for espionage...
17 Feb, 2015
Mozambique deal to combat poaching

An historic deal to tackle wildlife crime in Mozambique has been signed between the Mozambican government and the Peace Parks Foundation...
29 Oct, 2014
Kruger rhino sales go ahead

Moving rhinos out of the Kruger will go ahead, says SANParks, but due diligence is essential...
02 Oct, 2014