#WildEye - Oxpeckers

Dawie Groenewald’s Botswana hunting dispute

A leaked recording, court orders and company records place the controversial South African at the centre of a high-stakes struggle over a lucrative Okavango hunting concession...

09 January, 2026

Wired for waste: The billion-dollar deals powering Thailand’s energy surplus

Thailand is producing energy it doesn’t need at great cost to its citizens. One energy mogul benefits from the country’s long-term supply contracts. Khadija Sharife investigates...

24 October, 2025

Poachers’ partners: When Kruger’s rangers turn rogue

Insiders describe why, and how, rangers sworn to protect wildlife collude with poaching syndicates slaughtering rhinos. Tulani Ngwenya investigates...

09 June, 2025

Where is Zimbabwe’s cyanide queen?

Police are keeping mum about the extradition of Li Song, wanted in connection with the use of poison in illegal wildlife trade. Pamenus Tuso investigates...

08 May, 2025

Open doors: Official complicity in cross-border rhino horn poaching and smuggling

An Oxpeckers reporter speaks to syndicate insiders about the role of corrupt law enforcement officials enabling cross-border illegal trade in rhino horns...

24 March, 2025

Nigerian link in global gorilla trafficking

Daniel Stiles investigates organised transnational networks smuggling great apes from Africa via Nigeria...

07 February, 2025

Unravelling the threads of snaring in Kruger park

Incidents of wildlife snaring have rocketed in South Africa’s flagship national park in the past four years. What’s driving the surge, and how are conservationists facing up to it?...

29 October, 2024