Oxpeckers Oxpeckers Oxpeckers About UsGet involvedOxpeckers on TwitterOxpeckers Blogs Chinese links IMG_9873 Angola’s new resource curse The Lobito Corridor between Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo is a game-changer in the new scramble for Africa’s mineral riches. Who’s building it, and why? John Grobler travelled 8,000km to find out by Oxpeckers Reporters | 02.19.2014 Read more An elephant walks past a camera trap in Bwabwata National Park in the Zambezi Region, November 11 2013. Photo courtesy the Kwando Carnivore Project Spotlight on Zambezi’s ivory poaching Namibia has enjoyed a good reputation for its nature conservation, but there is evidence the illegal trade in wildlife products is taking off. The smuggling hotspot is the Zambezi border region where five Southern Africa countries intersect. Oxpeckers fellow and Chinese journalist Hongxiang Huang travelled to Zambezi to investigate by Oxpeckers Reporters | 02.11.2014 Read more Map crop China’s view on opening the trade in rhino horn Wan Ziming, the head of China’s Management Authority at the world wildlife trade body CITES, expressed his concern this week about opening legal trade in rhino horn By Hongqiao Liu by Oxpeckers Reporters | 11.26.2013 Read more Tom Milliken Oxpeckers talks to Traffic’s Tom Milliken about China’s role in rhino horn trafficking Rhino horn bangles a new fashion item? The global wildlife trade expert talks to Hongqiao Liu about China’s growing appetite for horn, and what that means for the last rhinos by Oxpeckers Reporters | 11.19.2013 Read more Diced rhino horn sell on BAIDU TIEBA We chat rhino horn Though twice as expensive as gold, online selling in rhino horn products is booming. Most of the trading both online and offline takes place in Fujian Province, from where at least 80% of the Chinese people living in South Africa originate. by Oxpeckers Reporters | 10.03.2013 Read more Photo: Chinas largest rhino horn seizure since 1993 took place in January 2013 in Guangxi Province © TRAFFIC China’s growing appetite for rhino horn China accounted for nearly 80% of the reported seizures of illegal rhino horns in Asia between 2009 and late last year, despite the fact that the Chinese government banned illicit trade in horns in early 1993. by Oxpeckers Reporters | 10.03.2013 Read more All photos taken by Oxpeckers reporters in Maputo’s “ivory market” Chinese connections in African ivory & rhino horn markets For the first time, journalists from mainland China worked with African journalists on an undercover investigation into the Chinese connection with ivory and rhino horns market in South Africa and Mozambique. by Oxpeckers Reporters | 10.03.2013
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