How pangolins are smuggled from Southern Africa
Southern African countries are grappling with illegal pangolin trade. Calistus Bosaletswe analyses data sources to find out how this trade takes place...
03 Jun, 2022
Southern Africa Tag
New #Wildeye tool tracks wildlife crime in Southern Africa
Wildlife crime in Southern Africa has become easier to track and harder to hide, after Oxpeckers launched a digital tool that follows court cases and convictions in the region...
24 Nov, 2021
LAUNCH: Game-changing wildlife crime reporting tool
Launch of a new data-driven mapping tool to help environmental crime reporters untangle the web of connections in the illegal wildlife trade in Southern Africa...
08 Nov, 2021
Using the law to access wildlife crime data
Attorneys from the Legal Resources Centre train journalists on legal frameworks and access to information in Southern African countries. Dianne Tipping-Woods reports...
25 Aug, 2021
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
Too low, too slow: SA’s rhino convictions
The real war on poaching happens in the courtroom – but the wheels of justice grind slowly in many rhino-related cases, writes Jacqueline Cochrane...
19 Feb, 2021
The perfect rhino crime
Oscar Nkala investigates how corrupt judicial processes in Zimbabwe are helping wildlife traffickers get off scot free...
13 Jan, 2021
The world’s largest ‘paper park’
Six years and €50-million since its creation, Oscar Nkala visits the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area to find out what impact it has had on wildlife and communities...
14 Dec, 2018
Inside Botswana’s illegal donkey trade
Chinese traders are driving the cruel slaughter of donkeys across Southern Africa, for traditional potions that use gelatin in the hide. Investigation by Oscar Nkala...
24 Aug, 2017
Indigenous breeds adapt best
In response to climate change farmers prefer livestock species that are heat and drought tolerant, as well as disease and parasite resistant, writes Kennedy Dzama [caption id="attachment_8452" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Nguni cattle are...
01 Dec, 2016