US-Canada antiques link in trafficking scam
In the latest abuse of the antiques exemptions, Canadian dealer 'Tony' Guan was jailed for smuggling rhino horns, ivory and coral across the US border...
26 March, 2015
ivory Tag
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
Chinese Environmental Journalism Project
Global wildlife trafficking syndicates employ increasingly sophisticated circumvention tools and technology to avoid detection. Oxpeckers exposes them by playing them at their own game...
14 February, 2014
Spotlight on Zambezi’s poaching problem
The Zambezi border region where five Southern Africa countries intersect is a wildlife trafficking hotspot. Hongxiang Huang investigated the smugglers' links to China...
11 February, 2014
The Chinese ivory-smugglers in Mozambique
Who are the Chinese citizens smuggling ivory out of Africa, and how are they doing it? Oxpeckers fellow Huang Hongxiang went to Mozambique to investigate...
06 December, 2013
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
Oxpeckers talks to Traffic’s Tom Milliken about China’s role in rhino horn trafficking
Rhino horn bangles a new fashion item? The global wildlife trade expert talks to Hongqiao Liu about China's growing appetite for horn, and what that means for the last rhinos...
19 November, 2013
Mozambique poachers set sights on Kruger ivory
Ivory poachers targeting Kruger's big tuskers are using the same smuggling routes set up to launder rhino horns to Asian countries...
08 October, 2013