Using the law to access wildlife crime data
Attorneys from the Legal Resources Centre train journalists on legal frameworks and access to information in Southern African countries. Dianne Tipping-Woods reports...
25 Aug, 2021
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How journalists use data to investigate wildlife crime in Asia
Takeaways from a #WildEye discussion among diverse journalists from across Asia about their experiences of using data to investigate wildlife crimes...
09 Jun, 2021
Struggling to find SA’s mines? You’re not alone
The government admits its online platform for accessing information on SA’s mines is not working. Thank goodness for #MineAlert, writes Andiswa Matikinca...
11 Mar, 2021
‘Gold rush’ as Botswana meets appetite for lion goods
Data investigation by Calistus Bosaletswe shows that over a 10-year period South Africa received most of the live lions and their products exported from Botswana...
20 Jan, 2021
Chinese courts treat pangolin offenders lightly
Data investigation by #WildEye Asia exposes lenient punishments for pangolin offences that are unlikely to deter illegal trade. Investigation by Bao Choy...
05 May, 2020
Steps up in my journalism career
From going cross-eyed cleaning datasets to freezing on the summit of the Drakensberg – Yuexuan Chen finds her groove in investigative environmental journalism...
23 Aug, 2019
Dynamic data discovery: The future of detecting wildlife cybercrime
Being able to identify online transactions and conversations involving vulnerable species will assist in the fight against wildlife trafficking. Roxanne Joseph reports...
04 Feb, 2019
Coal mines leave a legacy of ruin
Oxpeckers publishes never-before-seen data exposing the lack of mine closures, despite R45-billion being held in financial provisions for rehabilitation in 2015. Investigation by Mark Olalde...
07 Apr, 2017
Talking Oxpeckers and technology in Seoul
Oxpeckers both creates and applies new technologies for investigative environmental reporting. It is a new kind of journalism that creates visual narratives while empowering civic society and other journalists...
23 Jun, 2015
Pioneering data journalism
Oxpeckers' work on rhino poaching features in the Art and Science of Data-driven Journalism, published by the Tow Center of the School of Journalism...
03 Jun, 2014