Levels of noise similar to those at a rock concert are bombarding the world’s marine life, making it harder for them to hunt and to detect predators.
Slaughtered for tusks and meat, endangered wildlife numbers have taken a huge knock since soldiers and rebels began fighting in December.
The Quino checkerspot butterfly has saved itself from extinction by shifting to a higher altitude and picking a new species of plant for laying eggs.
South African lepidopterists are in a flutter after the discovery of a second colony of critically endangered Wolkberg Zulu butterflies.
Scientists ask whether humans care only for species from which they can extract benefit, and dismiss the rest as "worthless".
An envisaged road to serve commercial interests in Northern Gauteng will destroy endangered frogs’ breeding ground environmentalists have said.
The online charity auction for the right to name South Africa’s most recently discovered flower species has already drawn a bid of R60 000.
Conservationists suspect political interference after muti man’s trial is thrown out of court.
As housing developments spread across the grasslands of Gauteng, insects are being pushed out of their homes. And when that happens, they fade away.
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/ 21 January 2009
Frogs face extinction because humans have developed a taste for their legs, Australian researchers said on Wednesday.