Tag Archives: rhino poaching

This is CSI Africa!

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Shaun Smillie

Jasper* doesn’t know the faces of the men he hunts; he recognises them from the soles of their shoes. He gathers shoe prints left in the dust, like other men collect stamps, or rare coins. There is a whole database … Continue reading →

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Bigfoot versus the rhino

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Shaun Smillie

This is Part 2 of the expose we did on rhino poaching on the border of Mozambique and South Africa. Johannesburg – The man with the big feet would leave his flip-flops at the fence. Barefooted he’d slip across the … Continue reading →

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The town that thrives on rhino horn

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Shaun Smillie

I know it has been a while, but I guess it is time to fire up them blogs again. So let me start by posting some articles of a series I wrote for The Star newspaper. Some of you might … Continue reading →

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So this is what killed Spencer the Rhino

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Shaun Smillie

Spencer the Rhino’s, post-mortem and a toxicology report are out. And it reads like that of an overweight middle aged man, carrying a fatal underlying condition. I had almost expected to read that Spencer had a bottle of Scotch a … Continue reading →

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Death on the job

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Shaun Smillie

We didn’t know the rhino was dying. For about 45 minutes we, the press corps, crowded around the darted beast struggling to get a clear picture or even a glimpse of what the wildlife vets were doing. The rhino appeared … Continue reading →

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