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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