Mpumalanga regional court president Naomi Engelbrecht faces mounting backlash after trying to transfer cases from the flagship court for rhino cases to Hazyview regional court
The Soetendalsvlei wetland ecosystem is an important biodiversity area and a haven for birds at southernmost tip of Africa
The first two weeks of December recorded 313 fires, compared with more than 600 last year
A report commissioned by South African National Parks has ruled out natural causes and negligence as reasons for the blaze
Park manager Frans van Rooyen says the organisation is making progress in rehabilitating the more than600 hectares of land affected by the blaze
The final report has long exceeded its initial two-week timeframe
One of the best ways of taking in the abundant beauty this country has to offer is to visit our national parks. Here are some to visit.
The sale of wildlife to Angolan parks has sparked a row over the spread of species to areas in which they do not occur naturally.
South African National Parks rangers have shot and killed a suspected rhino poacher and wounded two others at the Kruger National Park.
The Kruger National Park has said it would meet with union representatives in a bid to end the nearly month-old strike by field rangers.
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/ 14 February 2012
Sanparks has revealed that 52 rhinos have been poached in South Africa so far this year — mostly in Limpopo and Kruger National Park.
Parliament’s portfolio committee on water and environmental affairs is set to begin its public hearings on how best to combat rhino poaching.
Two suspected poachers have been shot and killed in the Kruger Park during an anti-poaching operation after the discovery of eight dehorned rhinos.
The number of rhinos poached in South Africa has reached a record high, with 341 of the endangered animals killed this year alone, the WWF says.
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/ 12 January 2011
South Africa lost 333 rhinos to poaching in 2010, the highest number ever recorded, the country’s parks agency said on Wednesday.
Extreme cold, wind and heavy rain has killed 600 African penguin chicks on Bird Island, a reserve in Algoa Bay near Port Elizabeth.
Rhino poaching had escalated at an "alarming rate" since the beginning of the year, South African National Parks said on Friday.
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/ 23 November 2007
A 12-year-old boy drowned and a 65-year-old man is missing in flooding caused by heavy rains in the Southern Cape, police said on Friday. Captain Malcolm Pojie said the young boy from Harkerville, about 5km to 10km outside Plettenberg Bay, was playing with friends along the banks of a river swollen by rain when he was swept downstream.