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San Master Tracker Xui finds signs of the ghost elephants in a stretch of wetlands. (Credit: Ariel Leon Isacovitch)
ANGOLA

‘Ghost Elephants’ explores nature, myth and memory

A haunting journey into Angola’s wild highlands, ‘Ghost Elephants’ follows Steve Boyes and KhoiSan master trackers as they search for a mythical elephant

  • Lesego Chepape
4 min read
BBC WORLD NEWS

Pay-TV provider StarSat challenges Icasa over expired licence

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has ordered StarSat to stop broadcasting after failing to renew its licence on time

  • Anathi Madubela
2 min read
Netters try to catch sardines at the Amanzimtoti beach, south of Durban on July 3, 2019. – Like the running of the bulls in Spain, the migration of the wild-beast across Kenya, the sardine run along South Africa’s East Coast is an annual event attracting thousands of locals and tourists. Each year massive shoals of sardines stretching hundreds of miles draw thousands of sharks, dolphins and gannets hovering above the fish. Masses of fishermen, locals line the shores to watch, catch and some sell them. (RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP)
ALBI MODISE

Call for SA to join 30% conservation target to stem nature loss, climate change

But others argue that the conservation plan will amount to the ‘biggest land grab in history’

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
YouTube has received widespread criticism for its seemingly haphazard approach to how it chooses to censor videos with offensive content, hate speech, and misinformation. (Reuters)
AVAAZ

YouTube steers viewers to climate denial videos: nonprofit

YouTube has driven millions of viewers to climate denial videos, a US activist group said on Thursday as it called for stopping “free promotion of misinformation” at the…

  • Glenn Chapman
3 min read
Cape Town’s mountainous peninsula is home to several protected Chacma baboon troops.
BABOONS

National Geographic in Pringle Bay baboon brouhaha

Pringle Bay residents in the Western Cape are outraged at a National Geographic documentary that used food to lure baboons to a house in the area.

  • Sapa
1 min read
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Where things fell apart

To spend Christmas on Easter Island was more than a fanciful notion. Who hasn’t felt enticed by the image of those giant stone heads?

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read