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Three rhino poaching suspects arrested as new board steps in at Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife

Tony Carnie
13 Jun

Good news for tuskers as Britain bans trade in ivory

Don Pinnock
07 Jun

African countries nix Zimbabwe’s efforts to sell live elephants and its ivory stockpiles

Don Pinnock
02 Jun

On patrol with the Black Mambas, the all-female anti-poaching unit in the Greater Kruger area

Valeria van der Westhuizen for Roving Reporters
18 May

New weapon in fight against wildlife crime launched in Western Cape

Victoria O’Regan
16 May

More rhinos are being killed for their horns — and it’s not just the poachers who are to blame

Georgie Pearce
20 Apr

Abalone haul: poaching gear recovered in Table Mountain National Park

Karabo Mafolo
18 Apr

Rhino bloodbath in KZN as poachers gun down 75 animals this year

Tony Carnie
05 Apr

Plants on the black market: Inside South Africa’s new poaching problem

Ashraf Hendricks and Liezl Human
08 Mar

Blazing saddles: On the trail with community conservation champion Vusi Tshabalala

Mieneke Muller for Roving Reporters
22 Feb

The big fence: Historical divisions plague conservation efforts in South Africa

Fred Kockott for Roving Reporters
22 Feb

SANParks executives say Kruger’s threatened rhino population ‘not too far’ from stability

Ethan van Diemen
10 Feb

Poachers target private reserves as rhino populations decline

Ed Stoddard
08 Feb

Illicit fishing threatening to diminish entire ecosystems and local economies around Lake Kivu

Oluwole Ojewale
02 Feb

Troubled Waters: Killing the will of the villagers next to Lake St Lucia

Nomfundo Xolo
26 Jan

Beyond its exceptional beauty, Kruger National Park is on the ropes and hurting

Helena Kriel and Don Pinnock
25 Jan

Spike in snare trap placements leading to growing number of wildlife deaths in KZN

Lungi Langa
19 Jan

‘Loved to death’: Poaching for the horticultural market threatens cycads in South Africa

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
04 Jan

Statistical ecology can unlock the power of biodiversity data in Africa

Henintsoa Onivola Minoarivelo, Francisco Cervantes Peralta and Timothy Kuiper
28 Dec

Communities, corruption and carcasses: when the Kruger National Park, the bushmeat trade and the Mthimkulu’s complex history collide

Kevin Bloom
02 Dec

This week we’re listening to: A riveting and disturbing foray into South Africa’s rhino-poaching crisis

Ed Stoddard
11 Nov