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
Southern Africa Tag
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
Oxpeckers Associate wins Journalist of the Year award
Shi Yi, a Chinese journalist who joined Oxpeckers to expose wildlife trafficking routes from Namibia to Asia, won the coveted Journalist of the Year Award at the 2016 China Environmental...
30 May, 2016
SA’s maize crop down 36% due to drought
[caption id="attachment_3882" align="alignright" width="300"] This season's rainfall, compared to the past 35 years. © WFP-VAM[/caption] South Africa has issued a preliminary forecast of maize production for the coming harvest of 7.4...
15 Feb, 2016
China’s view on opening trade in rhino horn
Wan Ziming, head of China’s Management Authority at CITES, spoke to Hongqiao Liu about his concerns over opening trade in rhino horn ...
26 Nov, 2013