Justice for Rhinos: An open letter to SA Deputy Minister of Justice and KZN Regional Court President
AN OPEN LETTER TO SOUTH AFRICA’S DEPUTY MINISTER OF JUSTICE, JOHN JEFFERY, AND KWAZULU-NATAL REGIONAL COURT PRESIDENT, ERIC NZIMANDE I am the founder of Saving the Wild, and the guardian of the ‘blood rhino blacklist’. This is no secret, and I have already exposed two magistrates and two defense attorneys I have claimed are working […]
Rhino horn accused ‘protected by bribery’
Introduction by Jamie Joseph | Saving the Wild Gwala arrogantly rants to police officers that he will never stop killing rhinos. It is up to every one of us to make him stop. Unlike the Sunday Times, who need to walk the legal tightrope, I have no hesitation to name both the magistrate and defense […]
Thomas D. Mangelsen’s ‘art as a force for good’ is saving rhinos
More than US165 000 raised in EAL / Saving the Wild photographic benefit By Jamie Joseph Rhino poaching is spirally out of control in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, and the original home of the iconic species has become the new ground zero as Kruger stabilizes. Government organisation Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife is bleating on about ‘budget […]
Thomas D. Mangelsen: Stalking Black Rhino
By Jamie Joseph “No rush. I’m in the car park sitting on the roots of a giant fig tree,” wrote world-renowned nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen in a text message that beeped as I raced the final stretch to Richards Bay Airport; the gateway to South Africa’s Zululand wilderness. I was running late because our […]
Saving the Wild with legendary wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen
Rhino Mission: 30 January – 10 February 2017 One of the most prolific nature photographers of our time, Thomas Mangelsen is as much an artist as he is a conservationist. Tom was named the 2011 Conservation Photographer of the Year by Nature’s Best Photography, placing his work in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian’s National […]
Minister’s response to alleged rhino poaching kingpin
By Jamie Joseph IFP’s Chief Whip in Parliament, Mr Narend Singh, delivered this written question to Edna Molewa, Minister of Environmental Affairs: With regards to the trial of the alleged rhino poaching kingpin Dumisani Gwala, why has the syndicate of the specified person never been acknowledged at any of the department’s quarterly rhino poaching briefings […]
Rhino crisis: What we need is a revolution
By Jamie Joseph Smart people are starting to notice that I am writing a lot less these days, and yet there is a lot more rhino poaching stories in mainstream news. I really don’t care for having my name attached to stories, especially since I am such a target now. My focus is really just […]
World Elephant Day – Saving Giants
Jamie Joseph on assignment with Big Life Foundation, Kenya We race over to Jetta in our vehicles and Dr Njoroge and his team swiftly get to work. They turn her over so that she is lying on her side, and then start scooping their fingers into the wound. Blood comes gushing out. “The biggest problem […]
Blood rhino blacklist – Magistrate no. 2
By Jamie Joseph In January I began the process of exposing an apparently corrupt network of magistrates, lawyers and police in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) that has allowed accused rhino poachers and rhino horn traffickers to evade conviction and jail time despite thorough, detailed evidence being presented against them. On 10 April of this year, the revered […]
If South Africa does not tackle corruption we will lose the war on poaching
In April this year the revered Public Protector of South Africa, Thuli Madonsela, accepted the case Jamie Joseph put forward to her and opened up a preliminary investigation into corruption enabling rhino poaching. It was a resurgence of hope for a conservation community suffering from fatigue. Watch New Zealand 6’O Clock News / Samantha Hayes […]
