Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism

Oxpeckers is an award-winning non-profit media company that combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping tools to expose eco-offences and track organised criminal syndicates. Named after small brown birds that remove parasites from ecosystems, Oxpeckers has a network of Associates based in Africa and elsewhere who specialise in environmental reporting. We tell complex stories visually using dynamic infographics, “single story” animated maps and data visualisation to augment more traditional story packages. Oxpeckers is developing the most comprehensive database of eco-offences in Africa. The resulting reportage is published online and through media partners, with the underlying evidence and other source materials available to other media and environmental guardians for use in their own work.