Reporting on the rise of green crime
Legal expert guides journalists on using legal frameworks to access information on environmental crimes in Europe. Nompumelelo Mtsweni reports...
28 Apr, 2022
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Journalists learn new skills to expose wildlife crime
Resources and learning materials from the inaugural six-month Oxpeckers training course are now available to advance data journalism and environmental reporting around the globe...
17 Feb, 2022
Enhancing wildlife crime journalism with data
New Oxpeckers professional support programme boosts wildlife crime reporting in Southern Africa with data-driven tools and journalist training...
26 Jul, 2021
Here’s how to heed those voices, Mr President
President Cyril Ramaphosa says SA mining wants to be more transparent and embracing. Andiswa Matikinca talks to organisations with advice...
08 Feb, 2019
Help us to track wildlife crime
Our new #WildEye project aims to expose wildlife smuggling networks and how they work across the greater European continent...
20 Nov, 2018
‘Evidence failure’ blights fight against illegal wildlife trade
Experts want to see a more scientific approach to designing, monitoring and evaluating interventions against wildlife crime, reports Mike Shanahan...
25 Oct, 2018
Online trade: the devil’s in the data
Law enforcement agencies are creating new ways to combat online illegal wildlife trade. A centralised data repository is crucial to their success, writes Roxanne Joseph...
16 Aug, 2018
#MineAlert tackles threats to water resources
New Water Threats map layers provide a birds’-eye view of mining risks to SA's ground and surface water reserves...
28 Mar, 2018
Pioneering multimedia tech for climate change
Lessons we learnt from experimenting with savvy storytelling tech to tell visually strong and impactful multimedia investigations...
10 Nov, 2017
Progress through partnerships
#MineAlert's Tholakele Nene discusses the importance of building trusted partnerships when creating tools for transparency and accountability...
18 Sep, 2017