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[caption id="attachment_1060" align="alignleft" width="370"] SANParks chairperson Kuseni Dlamini[/caption]A controversial application for a luxury hotel development in the south of the Kruger National Park, linked to chairperson of the South African...

DNA profiling has proved a game changer in securing harsh sentences for poachers and rhino horn smugglers, writes Louise de Bruin [caption id="attachment_1047" align="alignleft" width="765"] Less than 0,1mg of horn is...

SANParks wants to move rhinos out of the Kruger to protect them from poachers. Contracts were signed with three hunting outfits based in the Northern Cape...

South Africa is losing a species about which very little is known. Louise de Bruin talks to two vets whose mission is to save the rhinos...

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...

Is it worth digging up a biodiversity and heritage hotspot for fertilizer? Marie-Louise Antoni investigates plans to mine phosphate on the doorstep of the West Coast National Park...

The Kenyan government granted a US$484-million contract to a Chinese firm to put up the first three berths of a gigantic port project in a global heritage site. Local residents...

The Botswana government banned canned hunting of large carnivores, in response to an Oxpeckers cross-border investigation. Lawrence Seretse reports...