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.
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.
A beached cargo ship is leaking oil into the sea and endangering the marine and coastal wildlife of the Goukamma Nature Reserve near Knysna.
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.
White Lions are known by the African Elders as “Star Lions” and the name Tsimba Vati- is an ancient one, directly translating into “Lion Star.”
"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.
Police in Limpopo have arrested three suspected rhino poachers believed to have been on their way to shoot and dehorn rhinos in Phalaborwa.
A study has shown that the speed of evolutionary change is far outstripped by the rate of global warming, meaning many creatures will face extinction.
With less than 1,000 adult Cape parrots left in the wild, Dr Steve Boyes has to make conservation count.
The Safaricom marathon was run last week across Kenya-based wildlife sanctuary the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Since the inaugural marathon in 2000, US$4.5m has been raised for a range of conservation projects.
The cheetah, South Africa's second-most threatened carnivore, has returned to the country's Free State province for the first time in 100 years with the reintroduction of two male cheetahs at the privately owned Laohu Valley Reserve.
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and the UK government hosted a conference on Tuesday to call for action at the highest level to end the trade in illegal wildlife – a trade that presents a grave threat not only to the natural world, but also to national and regional security.
Google, famous for their internet search engine, has made a US$3 million Global Impact Award to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC for a project on endangered species. South Africa is one of six countries selected as partners in the project.
This project aims to identify areas along the coastline of South Africa where adult African Penguins go in order to feed and gain weight before moulting and breeding. These areas will then be compared to fishing areas to determine the degree of overlap with the fishery.
Renowned biologist George Schaller has been traveling to the Tibetan Plateau for nearly three decades, studying its unique wildlife. But with climate change and overgrazing taking a toll on the landscape, he reports, scientists and the Chinese government are working to preserve one of the planet’s wildest places.
It’s not so long ago that our gardens were productive as well as aesthetically pleasing, containing a veggie garden, a small orchard, and herbs and medicines too. How wonderful, but perhaps too much hard work? Or so thought some, as gardens moved away in disdain from anything productive or working class, to the opposite extreme of being purely decorative.
A helicopter crash in South Africa's Kruger National Park has killed five members of the military who were patrolling in an anti-rhino poaching operation.
Renowned local artist Andile Dyalvane has kindly joined forces to help support the Pride of Cape Town, the public arts event set to launch at the V & A Waterfront this month. All proceeds will benefit international wildlife charity the Born Free Foundation.
