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Moreangels Mbizah tracking lions in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of the Whitley Foundation.

Conservationist wins top award to protect lions and people in Zimbabwe

Ryan Truscott 30 Apr 2026
The Nkhundye biogas plant under construction. Image courtesy of NACRO.

A village biogas project tests Zambia’s push to improve rural energy access

Sokosi Silvester Banda 29 Apr 2026
A bat-eared fox (Octocyon megalotis). Image courtesy of Tswalu Kalahari Reserve.

Restoring land with wildlife & earning carbon credits in the Kalahari Desert

Mongabay.com 27 Apr 2026
The town of Aggeneys in Northern Cape province lies close to the mining area. Image courtesy of Northern Cape Tourism.

Little-known company targets South African biodiversity hotspot for mining

Anna Weekes 23 Apr 2026
A portrait of a cute Gentoo penguin during the snowfall in Antarctica with a blurry background

How much does a penguin weigh?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Apr 2026
Black rhinos are critically endangered.

Chinese court cases reveal most trafficked rhino horns come from Southern Africa

Spoorthy Raman 21 Apr 2026
Jannes Landschoff diving in the Great African Seaforest. Image courtesy of Jannes Landschoff.

A campaign to protect one of the planet’s only expanding kelp forests takes shape

Alexandra Talty 21 Apr 2026
Excavations at the mine, which has been found to be the source of the pollution in two rivers in Karonga district. Image by Jordan Simeon Phiri for Mongabay.

Malawi government suspends coal miner’s license over river pollution

Charles Mpaka 20 Apr 2026
A yellow-fronted canary from South Africa. The songbird tops the list of wild birds exported from Africa to Asia.

Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list

Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2026

Malawi says there’s been no illegal crayfish smuggling for a year

Charles Mpaka 8 Apr 2026
A lemur eating a strawberry guava. Image courtesy of Natalee Phelps.

An invasive guava is muscling out Madagascar’s forests — and lemurs are helping

Ryan Truscott 31 Mar 2026

Zambia seizes half-ton of ivory in major illegal wildlife crime operation

Charles Mpaka 28 Mar 2026
A gemsbok (Oryx gazella), also known as the South African oryx, in a mixed herd of herbivores at Tswalu. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

A South African reserve shows how carbon can catalyze rewilding conservation

John Cannon 27 Mar 2026
The Zanette in the Gqeberha harbour, offloading its catch into a truck belonging to the DSL permit-holder, Fisherman Fresh CC. Image courtesy of Enrico Gennari.

Investigation of permit violations in South Africa’s shark fishery pending

Victoria Schneider 27 Mar 2026

Another legal challenge for TotalEnergies in South Africa  

Victoria Schneider 24 Mar 2026
Lilac-breasted roller in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Image courtesy of Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

How Namibia’s bird conservation projects build community resilience (commentary)

Martha Karas 23 Mar 2026

Glyphosate found in South African baby cereal; watchdog group calls for ban

Elodie Toto 16 Mar 2026

South Africa endorses treaty to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2026
A maize field cultivated using agroecology concepts.

In Malawi, farmers rebuild soil and livelihoods through agroecology

Kelvin Tembo 9 Mar 2026

Beetle known for ravaging mango trees now killing baobabs, study finds

Charles Mpaka 5 Mar 2026
A pack of lions in Botswana.

DNA fingerprinting convicts Zimbabwe lion poachers in landmark case

Spoorthy Raman 5 Mar 2026
Due to their nonselective nature, shark nets and drum lines frequently kill sharks that don’t pose a threat to humans. Image from "Monsters" courtesy of Skyler Thomas.

Proposed shark net near Club Med resort in South Africa sparks conservation clash

Victoria Schneider 4 Mar 2026
The Thonga people have practiced this fishing method for over 700 years. Image by Leonie Joubert.

Displaced for conservation, South Africa’s Thonga try to keep a fishing tradition alive

Leonie Joubert 2 Mar 2026
A lion in Africa.

Botswana shows how smarter cattle herding can save lions, reopen ancient wildlife pathways

Gloria Dickie 24 Feb 2026

Malawi’s solar boom is leaving a toxic legacy of lead waste

Charles Mpaka 20 Feb 2026
A white-backed vulture in Zimbabwe. Image by Chris Collyer/ Birdlife Zimbabwe.

Africa’s vulture safe zones face tough test across vast landscapes

Sean Mowbray 19 Feb 2026

‘Ridiculous’ plan developed at Florida zoo saves wild rhino’s eyesight in Africa

Associated Press 18 Feb 2026
According to scientists, the enhanced protection for southern elephant seals is likely benefiting other species in their habitat. Image courtesy of Nico de Bruyn.

Southern elephant seals recover in Southern Africa, but global picture is mixed

Charles Mpaka 18 Feb 2026
At work in NatCarbon's spekboom nursery.

UN recognition is latest boost to restoring spekboom across South Africa’s semidesert Karoo

Joe Walsh 17 Feb 2026
Mozambique was the hardest hit by the heavy rains in the last few months, since it’s located downstream of nine international rivers. Image © European Union, 2025 (Peter Biro) via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Floods linked to climate change hit nearly 1 million in Southern Africa

Victoria Schneider 17 Feb 2026
One of the specimens of Drepanogynis insciata photographed by Cameron Scott.

Citizen science rediscovers rare South African moth

Ryan Truscott 11 Feb 2026
African penguins at a beach in Simon's Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Unidentified oil washes up on South African beaches

Victoria Schneider 10 Feb 2026

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