Asian immigrants in South Africa, traditional Asian medicine and wildlife trade hotspots OPINION / 16 SEPTEMBER 2017, 1:00PM / SHEREE BEGA Trang Nguyen’s British surgeon was... Continue Reading
Undercover operation reveals rhino trafficking secrets
A recently completed 11-month undercover investigation by Elephant Action League (EAL) called Grinding Rhino has exposed the networks, the players and the means by... Continue Reading
Exposing illegal ivory trade in China – The Shuidong Connection
In July 2017, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released their report, The Shuidong Connection, detailing their almost three-year undercover investigation into the illegal ivory... Continue Reading
Shipped from Mozambique, in transit to China – Ivory worth millions uncovered in Cambodia after bust
20 December 2016 Customs officials continued on Monday to slowly unpack a haul of hollowed-out logs from Africa crammed with endangered animal... Continue Reading
A bloody gift in the shape of a souvenir: Rhino horn
Rhino horn smugglers try to stay one step ahead of the authorities. By: Al Jazeera Investigative Unit It is a ubiquitous item... Continue Reading
By Bryan Christy Photographs by Brent Stirton It was a five-hour drive from South Africa’s Kruger National Park, home of the world’s... Continue Reading
SA, Zim, Nam brace for lonely ivory fight
By Chris Alden & Ross Harvey THREE countries in southern Africa have banded together to press for the lifting of the ban... Continue Reading
Tipping Point: Transnational organised crime and the ‘war’ on poaching
Six thousand rhinos have fallen to poachers’ bullets in Africa over the past decade and only about 25,000 remain – a fraction... Continue Reading
Legal ivory sale drove dramatic increase in elephant poaching, study shows
Research shows the legal sale in 2008 catastrophically backfired – but two African nations want to repeat the stockpile sell-off By: Damian... Continue Reading
What cigarettes, kidneys and rhinos have in common
Posted on 30 May, 2016 by Janine Avery “The rhino horn trade is one of the most successful examples of illicit entrepreneurship... Continue Reading