Mozambique Tag

More than 90% of Mozambican timber is exported to China at less than its true value. Estacio Valoi uncovers collusion between shipping agents, customs officials and port managers...

22 August, 2017

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

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

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

What do the CITES decisions mean for Southern Africa's elephants – and in particular, the world-famous Kruger National Park, where CITES has documented a 23% rise in elephant poaching? Yolandi...

04 October, 2016

An undercover investigation exposes South Africa’s growing role in illicit transnational pangolin smuggling. Will the ban on trade by CITES make any difference? Special report by Hazel Friedman & Alexis...

29 September, 2016

Montepuez ruby mine has been turned into a 'militarised zone' where villagers are beaten and illegal miners are killed, report Estacio Valoi & Gesbeen Mohammad...

15 March, 2016

Mozambique incinerated 2.5 tons of confiscated ivory and rhino horn this week, but will it end the illicit trade fuelling rampant wildlife poaching? Not unless corruption on the ground is...

10 July, 2015

Two international journalists investigating rhino poaching in Mozambique were arrested for espionage on February 16. Torbjörn Selander and Bartholomäus Grill, correspondents for Der Spiegel and The African Times, were apprehended by...

17 February, 2015