The tech inside Uganda’s militarised conservation state
The deployment of advanced data-aggregation platforms illustrates the dual-use risks of modern eco-surveillance. By Benon Herbert Oluka, Sam Schramski and Tulani Ngwenya...
04 May, 2026
#WildEye Tag
The fence that isn’t: Wildlife, disease and neglect on the SA-Eswatini border
A veterinary cordon fence meant to stop disease is failing – allowing wildlife from a private reserve in SA to trample crops, kill livestock and increase FMD risks in Eswatini...
08 April, 2026
The green panopticon: When saving rhinos means watching people
Tulani Ngwenya investigates how US dollars and hi-tech security have turned South Africa’s game parks into a fortress frontier...
23 February, 2026
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