LION EXPOSÉ • OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIVE REPOSITORY • REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE INTELLIGENCE • SOUTH AFRICA
“LionExpose plays a crucial role in uncovering and addressing wildlife exploitation, ensuring accountability and promoting justice for animals and rural communities.”
Advancing animal welfare in conservation, institutional transparency, and grassroots justice.
Investigates and exposes wildlife exploitation, abuse, and corruption across reserves and commercial conservation facilities.
Advocates for genuine animal welfare in conservation governance and enforces transparency across public and private reserves.
Collaborates with whistleblowers, frontline rangers, scientific experts, and grassroots conservation organisations.
Raises awareness through investigative digital reporting, social media channels, and public community outreach.
Exposes black-market trophy hunting, unlawful baiting practices, and targeted killings of endangered and collared species.
The frontline issues where Lion Exposé directs investigative resources and undercover observation.
Exposing rhino poaching and the industrial-scale businesses that profit from the poaching crisis and the illicit, bloody rhino horn trade.
Read Investigations →Elephant exploitation, with a specialized "Lioneye" on the ongoing Mawana elephant saga, water deprivation, and refugee herds in Zululand.
Read Investigations →Human rights abuse and green colonial-style conservation projects that profit from land and wildlife conservation areas without benefiting communities.
Read Investigations →Exposing wildlife corruption and the illegal and legal trafficking of wild animals across provincial borders and international transit hubs.
Read Investigations →Land Development corruption around biodiversity projects, fraudulent eco-zoning, and the displacement of indigenous rural custodians.
Read Investigations →Investigating the surge of illicit black-market trophy hunting, bogus permits, and under-the-table quotas for endangered predators.
Read Investigations →The guiding objectives that anchor all Lion Exposé investigative field operations.
To continue raising awareness of growing corruption and exploitation in the commercial and governmental conservation sector.
To enforce NGOs and listed charities to comply with public transparency, ethical donor allocations, and verifiable field audits.
Promoting independence from whitewashing AND dissemination of TRUTH often spread by mainstream media complicit with NGO agendas.
Authentic undercover footage and frontline interviews. Autoplay disabled; press play to watch.
Undercover visual documentation tracking transnational syndicates operating across KwaZulu-Natal reserves, profiling the militarized frontline and the digital intelligence battle against organized poaching syndicates.
View Full 10-Video Archive →Selected briefings from our verified archive of 46 investigative dossiers.
Anti-Poaching
Join us in honoring the brave heroes of World Rangers Day 2025, from human to canine and equine, protecting our parks and reserves against militarized syndicates.
Field Dispatch
LionExpose shares the ground truth behind their latest road trip across KwaZulu-Natal, documenting wildlife conservation issues, poaching realities, and community experiences.
Baboon Wars
Over 100,000 hectares of the Western Cape have been devastated by fires, fuelling a severe wildlife habitat crisis across the Cape Peninsula and surrounding corridors.
Rhinos & Horn Trade
Over twenty dehorned Rhinos have been slaughtered in Zululand in a brutal surge of poaching. Cross-border syndicates fuel demand from Asian markets as enforcement reaches crisis point.
Endangered Species
South Africa’s endangered Southern Ground Hornbills are disappearing fast. Discover the critical threats facing Zululand’s Thunderbirds and why urgent protection is needed.
Mawana Elephants
The Mawana elephants of Zululand face mounting threats from development, fencing, and human-wildlife conflict. Follow LionExpose as they retrace the herd’s path across the valley.
Lion Exposé relies on the courage of informers, rangers, community members, and conservation insiders to shine a light into the darkest corners of wildlife exploitation.
“Informers and whistle-blowers remain anonymous.”