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CONSERVATION

SA’s leopard population remains uncertain as new strategy weighs conservation and hunting

South Africa’s new draft leopard conservation strategy aims to balance preservation with cultural use and hunting, despite lacking reliable data on how many leopards actually…

  • Sheree Bega
9 min read
Resurrection: For its bluebuck work, Colossal is using the roan antelope, its closest living relative, as the genetic reference species and eventual surrogate. Researchers sequenced DNA from a bluebuck museum specimen at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Photos: Colossal Biosciences
CONSERVATION

The bluebuck, rebuilt

More than two centuries after the bluebuck vanished from the Western Cape, biotech firm Colossal Biosciences is attempting to genetically reconstruct the extinct antelope.…

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
Six South African cheetahs are relocated to Zambia in a bid to restore the species to the Greater Luangwa Ecosystem, where it was last recorded in 1998. (EWT)
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

SA cheetahs moved to Zambia as conservationists warn of ‘silent crisis’

While lions, elephants and rhinos dominate conservation headlines, cheetahs have been quietly disappearing from Africa’s landscapes. Now, six South African cheetahs have been…

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

Every count matters: South Africans called upon to count cranes this weekend

Conservationists are calling on South Africans to become citizen scientists this weekend for the country's first national crane census in two decades. The four-day count aims to…

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read
Dawie Groenewald
WILDLIFE CRIME

Groenewald case highlights challenges of prosecuting wildlife crime kingpins

The conviction of hunting safari operator Dawie Groenewald in the world’s largest rhino horn trafficking investigation highlights the complexity of organised wildlife crime and…

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read