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Cheetah at Zimanga private game reserve. Image by Charl Senekal

Spots of hope: Some good news for South Africa’s cheetahs

Tony Carnie 28 Sep 2020

Rangers on the run: Half-marathon aims to raise funding for front-liners

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Sep 2020

‘We are all ecstatic’: Rescued wild pangolin gives birth to healthy pup

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2020

The other Corona: Rescued pangolin is a rehabilitation success story

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2020

Singing and whistling cetaceans of southern Africa revealed by bioacoustics

Mike Gaworecki 19 Aug 2020

Saved from poisoning, these rare African vultures take wing again

Ed Holt 3 Aug 2020

‘It’s a success’: Pangolins return to a region where they were once extinct

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jun 2020
Great white carcass, Gansbaai. Image courtesy Hennie Otto/Marine Dynamics

Where are South Africa’s great white sharks?

Heather Richardson 10 Jun 2020
Elephant digging at a baobab tree in Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa, to get to the moisture-rich interior. Since at least 2015, there has been a prolonged drought across Southern Africa. Image by Nathalie Bertrams for Mongabay.

They survived centuries of elephant onslaught. Now climate change is killing these iconic baobabs

Tristen Taylor and Nathalie Bertrams 29 May 2020
Lion. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Coronavirus is a crisis for South Africa’s captive lions, campaigners warn

James Fair 13 Apr 2020

‘Just incredible’ reptiles and amphibians of South Africa: Q&A with Tyrone Ping

Erik Hoffner 16 Mar 2020

Rhino poaching in South Africa declines for fifth straight year

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2020
Chacma baboons in Tokai. Image by Ted Matherly via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Urban wildlife: Managing Cape Town’s baboons

Heather Richardson 28 Jan 2020
Burning a poisoned white-backed vulture carcass. Image courtesy Wildlife ACT.

Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in South Africa

Fred Kockott 29 Dec 2019

Vervet monkeys thrive despite habitat loss in South Africa

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2019
Hooded vulture. Image courtesy John Davies/EWT

Lift-off for first African vulture safe zones

Fred Kockott, Tony Carnie 28 Nov 2019
Big Tusker, Tembe Elephant Park. Photo courtesy Monica Klopper

Expansion of a famous elephant park holds out hope for Africa’s big tuskers

Matthew Hattingh, Mlu Mdletshe 14 Oct 2019

As climate crisis deepens, wildlife adapts, maybe with lessons for us

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2019

Big cat trade driven by demand for traditional Asian medicine, according to report

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2019

Is the rhino horn trade a cartel? Economic analysis suggests it works like one

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Aug 2019

New film details wrenching impact of illegal rhino horn trade on families

John Cannon 27 Jun 2019
Temminck's Ground Pangolin: Photo: KeithConnelly

Documentary seeks to tip the scales against illegal pangolin trafficking

Erna Curry 27 Jun 2019

How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018

Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa

Munyaradzi Makoni 13 Dec 2018

Another Cecil? Secrecy surrounds June trophy lion hunt

Jeremy Hance 13 Jul 2018

Owner of South African hunting company indicted by US prosecutors over illegal elephant hunt

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2018

Rangers face a ‘toxic mix’ of mental strain and lack of support

Jim Tan 24 May 2018

Meet the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

From galaxies far, far away to endangered species just over the hill

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Apr 2018

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