Kruger’s contested borderlands
Game reserves are being developed along the Mozambique border to create a buffer zone against poaching. But displaced communities say it’s a land grab...
06 April, 2018
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East Africa’s ivory smuggled out of Mozambican ports
Modus operandi of ivory smuggling networks exposed after recent arrest of a 'mastermind' in the illicit trade from Pemba to China. Estacio Valoi investigates...
07 November, 2017
Mozambique’s poaching castles are crumbling
Estacio Valoi travelled to Mozambique’s poaching capital to catch up with some of the kingpins who built their mansions on the proceeds of killing Kruger’s rhinos...
14 March, 2017
Mozambique associate wins environment award
Estacio Valoi, an Oxpeckers Associate based in Mozambique, won the environmental journalism award at the 15th anniversary celebrations of the Worldwide Fund for Nature...
30 January, 2017
Timber looting continues in Mozambique
Despite a ban on the export of raw timber in Mozambique, containers filled with hardwood logs are piling up in northern harbours for export to China. Estacio Valoi investigates [caption id="attachment_3712"...
10 January, 2017
Official complicity in Mozambican elephant slaughter
Elephant poaching is happening on 'an industrial scale' in northern Mozambique. A year-long investigation by Estacio Valoi exposes official complicity in the slaughter...
26 September, 2014
Ivory poaching in Mozambique
Conservationists say blood money from ivory trafficking was used to fuel tensions in the run-up to elections in Mozambique. Estacio Valoi investigates...
02 December, 2013
Rhino trafficking: Down the rabbit hole at Kruger
Rogue South African trophy hunters have been directly implicated in cross-border rhino poaching, according to reliable intelligence in 2013 ...
08 July, 2013