The study analyses the international political economy of rhino poaching and investigates the current anti-poaching strategy in South Africa in regard to the borders. The focus goes to the links between rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park in So...
The study analyses the international political economy of rhino poaching and investigates the current anti-poaching strategy in South Africa in regard to the borders. The focus goes to the links between rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park in South Africa and the border between South Africa and Mozambique. This border is managed based on the Cross Border Management (CBM), a border management guideline in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The CBM, which was funded and initiated by Western donors, focuses mainly on the economic integration of the region and fails to take into consideration distinctive African border conditions such as wildlife conservation areas across multiple borders. Hence, the border management of the SADC makes negative impacts on politics, society and environment of the region. In addition, contrast to its goal of regional economic growth through regionalisation, the border management guideline hinders the economic growth of the region by hurting a tourism industry and contributing to building negative images of the region such as rhino poaching and xenophobic attacks. Methodologically, a qualitative approach was used in investigation and interviews which took place in South Africa and Mozambique.