Over the next five years, the U.S. Navy plans to conduct a series of training exercises in coastal waters resulting in a "significant impact" on marine life as a result of the use of underwater explosives and sonar. These "war games" are intended to improve military readiness in the event of a real conflict.

World Rhino Day in South Africa will see conservationists and concerned citizens reflecting on another tragic year, the fifth in a row, where a record number of rhinos poached will most certainly be reached.

To date, a staggering 635 Rhinos have been reported as poached in South Africa in 2013, with the real numbers possibly being higher.

Since the launch of the first iconic rhino reusable shopping bag in 2010, over R1.7 million has been raised for rhino conservation through a number of initiatives.

A set of boots and caps for dung beetles has secured University of the Witwatersrand professor Marcus Byrne and his colleagues this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for biology and astronomy.

A campaign is being been launched this month in Bloemfontein to help saving endangered fauna and flora in the Free State and also nationwide.

On September 15th, 80 cities across the globe will be participating in a historic event to help save the Arctic.

On World Rhino Day, individuals and organisations around the world come together to celebrate the five rhino species and raise awareness of rhino conservation.

Endangered chimpanzees, other primates and forest elephants could lose stretches of their habitat in Cameroon if a U.S. company’s plan to establish a palm oil plantation goes ahead.

Consumers are increasingly aware of the environmental impacts of their seafood purchases and want to make the right choices,” said Martin Purves, MSC Southern Africa Programme Manager.

The pioneering White Lion Leadership Academy is a CALL TO ACTION - equipping each participant with the lion-hearted values and intuitive courage to take their enhanced and heightened awareness into hard, fast, realistic and practical application in our critical times.

Many naturalists are worried about the following phenomenon: the monarch butterfly, with its orange patterned wings, a design even noninsect enthusiasts can recognize, is dwindling.

A picture says more than a thousand words. Personally I feel that eco art should play a much stronger role in getting our urgent environmental message across than currently happens in our country.

PetroSA wants to explore the possibility of hydraulic fracturing to improve the productivity of three of the development wells currently being drilled 110km offshore of Mossel Bay.

Though attempts at working together to end poaching in Africa are being made, stockpile sales of old ivory do nothing to curb poaching and instead promote illicit trade.

For many years, leading global conservationists and charities have been doing all they can to stop the killing of elephants to fuel the illegal ivory trade. So, on World Elephant Day, just how bad is this crisis?

World Rhino Day celebrates all five species of rhino: Black, white, greater one-horned, Sumatran and Javan rhinos.

"This is the worst incident of vulture poisoning in KZN that I have seen in the 12 years I have been working with birds of prey in the province,” said Ben Hoffman of Raptor Rescue.

Every year, between November and March, forests on the mountainous border of Michoacán and Mexico house most of the monarch butterflies that migrate from the US and Canada for the winter.

Police in Limpopo have arrested three suspected rhino poachers believed to have been on their way to shoot and dehorn rhinos in Phalaborwa.