Kenya has proposed the death penalty for wildlife poachers. Jeremiah Asaka argues why it won’t solve the problem of poaching.
From tiny sensors that can be fitted to animals, to swarms of remotely-piloted drones, researchers have a host of new ways to study the natural world
A new threat to vultures is emerging: lead poisoning from ammunition used by game hunters
A campaign to raise $15 000 by Valentine’s Day to fund a search for Romeo’s Juliet before he croaks generated $25 000
The dogs — of varying breeds — have been found to have "very high" early detection rates of 50-70 percent accuracy in discovering the samples.
The pangolin is the world’s most hunted and illegally traded mammal
The Zimbabwe national parks authority says it will raise money from elephant sales to fund its operations, despite meeting resistance.
Bird Life South Africa says the International Union for Conservation in Nature’s 2012 red list shows three bird species in SA are under threat.
An envisaged road to serve commercial interests in Northern Gauteng will destroy endangered frogs’ breeding ground environmentalists have said.
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/ 10 February 2012
Wildlife agencies clamping down on multimillion rand animal and by-product black market.
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/ 3 November 2010
Harry Potter fans have been blamed for the demise of wild owls in India as children seek to emulate the boy wizard by taking the birds as pets.
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/ 19 November 2008
Bottom line is: We’ve changed the world around us, sometimes disastrously and irreparably. Someone has to take responsibility for the mess we’ve made.
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/ 11 October 2008
On Friday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed off his latest birthday present: a rare two-and-a-half-month-old Siberian tiger.
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/ 11 October 2008
Two men have been found guilty of unlawful possession of rhino horns by the Middelburg Regional Court.
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/ 19 September 2008
A new iguana has been discovered on Fiji, adding to the mystery about how these colourful lizards ended up in the South Pacific, zoologists said.
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/ 18 September 2008
Field researchers have sighted the hairy-nosed otter, the world’s rarest, in a national park in southern Vietnam.
Outlook for monkeys, apes and other primates has dramatically worsened. Nearly half of all primate species are threatened with extinction.
Nearly half of all primate species are now threatened with extinction, according to a comprehensive new evaluation.
Lonesome George, the conservation icon of the Galapagos islands and last surviving tortoise of his kind, may finally become a father.
Naturalists are fearing for endangered California condors caught up in a massive two-week-old blaze still sweeping through the scenic Big Sur area.
Afghanistan’s snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards in the country face another threat.