The relentless poaching of rhino has been continuing with 1 000 set to be killed by the end of 2013.
The biodiversity management plan for the African penguin raises more questions than answers, writes Janice Golding.
Members of an indigenous Zulu church called Shembe have agreed to wear fake leopard skins, in a bid to preserve South Africa’s leopard population.
The Dallas Safari Club is auctioning off a chance to shoot a black rhino in Namibia. The expected proceeds of R7.5-million go to rhino conservation.
A grass-roots campaign is putting pressure on politicians and the courts to act decisively.
A rare whale that has a dolphin-shaped head and saber-like teeth has been found dead on Los Angeles’ Venice Beach.
Britain’s only female giant panda has suffered a miscarriage, according to the Edinburgh Zoo.
The battle over use and ownership of municipal land and nature reserves on the eastern escarpment is complicated further by limited water resources.
The gentle, plankton-eating giants seem reluctant to mate in water lacking the nutrients needed to support life.
688 rhino have already been poached this year. With 100 days left in the year, the number could push towards 1 000.
The number of alleged rhino poachers arrested in South Africa this year now stands at 147, says the environmental affairs department.
Moving Sushi is the runner-up in the Future Leaders Award.
The research council has found that the pompom weeds are a danger to the country’s indigenous plant species.
Despite efforts to ban the burgeoning business, canned lion hunting is bringing in big money from trophy – and bone – hunters.
Lauren De Vos is a conservation biologist who helps people explore the mysteries of the oceans. She is an M&G 200 Young South African.
A new shopping centre and housing estates are threatening the last major breeding grounds of a very special amphibian, reports Sipho Kings.
The inability of the national park to pursue offenders across its border is costing game dearly
Nature conservation may need more sticks than carrots to work, says Janice Golding.
An international conference has voted to ban trade in some shark species whose populations have fallen to crisis levels.
White residents fear mining will ruin their ecovillage, but their black neighbours want the jobs it will bring. Jonathan Erasmus reports.
Faced with poachers who are ravaging elephant and rhino populations, African nations could do worse than look to Namibia for a game plan.
Kafue is a great place to discover how our senses suddenly
come alive in the bush.
The lions that roam Africa have lost as much as 75% of their habitat as their population dwindles and humans overtake their land.
A ban on shark finning and the adoption of a global shark conservation plan is being sought at a meeting of more than 50 countries in Bonn this week.
With less than 10% of the Caribbean’s reefs showing live coral cover, one of the world’s most important ecosystems is in danger of utter devastation.
The world’s largest conservation forum has opened in South Korea with warnings that reckless development was ruining the planet’s natural health.
The birth control vaccine for elephants has been shown to be 95% effective and is far more preferable to culling, researchers say.
DNA data, tracker dogs, choppers – the Kruger National Park has pulled out all the stops to save its rhino, writes Sipho Kings.
Even proof of the routes used between Botswana and South Africa has not alarmed the authorities, writes Fiona Macleod.
Conservation NGOs can lead, lobby, facilitate or terminate social and political processes involving nature conservation.
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/ 11 February 2011
Wraypex ordered to pay punitive costs of its ‘vexatious litigation’ against four enviromental activists.
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/ 27 October 2010
Ministers from around the world began on Wednesday a final push for a UN deal to protect nature.