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The vision of the Pro Elephant Network (PREN) is a future in which all elephants can thrive in freedom and dignity in their protected natural habitats as part of naturally functioning and evolving ecosystems. Photo: Godong/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
CONSERVATION

Elephants do not belong in zoos

The Pro Elephant Network’s mission is to stop the capture of elephants and to advocate for the release of captive elephants into the wild

  • The Pro Elephant Network
10 min read
The South African Mint Company said it had launched rhino coins as part of its Big Five collectable series, after unveiling elephant and lion coins earlier this year. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
BIG FIVE COIN

SA Mint launches rhino coin

The coins are produced in limited quantities ranging from 500 to 2 000, depending on the demand

  • Bongeka Gumede
2 min read
A herd of elephants drinks at the watering hole in Addo National Park in South Africa, 70 kilometres northeast of Port Elizabeth in the Sundays River Valley. Photo: Horst Galuschka/dpa (Photo by Horst Galuschka/picture alliance via Getty Images)
ADDO ELEPHANT NATIONAL PARK

SANParks shifts to solar and spekboom

Solar-generated pumps are pumping larger volumes of water for wildlife than diesel used to, and spekboom is helping offset carbon emissions

  • Tunicia Phillips
4 min read
A typical day at the office: Tebogo Manamela processes samples in the laboratory and helps to dehorn a rhino in the field. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)
BIOBANK

‘I was hit by an adult bull buffalo’: An interview with Kruger National Park veterinary technologist Tebogo Manamela

Tebogo Manamela talks to Lucas Ledwaba about helping to preserve Africa’s heritage and the rewards of working with – and sometimes being attacked by – animals at the Kruger…

  • Lucas Ledwaba
5 min read
At risk: South Africa, home to the world’s largest population of rhino, is critical to the conservation of this species, which are targeted by poachers. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images)
BARBARA CREECY

Reservations about ‘new deal’ for rhinos, lions, elephant, leopards

Draft policy promotes species playing their role in wilderness systems but one conservationist says leopards are being sold out

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read