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Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry

Erik Hoffner 15 Oct 2020
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

The other Corona: Rescued pangolin is a rehabilitation success story

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2020

Mozambique’s trailblazing Gorongosa Park celebrates 60th anniversary, announces 60 new schools (commentary)

Dominique Gonçalves 23 Jul 2020
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Calls for swift action as hundreds of elephants die in Botswana’s Okavango Delta

Ed Holt 2 Jul 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

Tribute to Garth Owen-Smith, African conservationist (commentary)

Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation 18 Apr 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

Illegal industrial fishing hampers small-scale African fisheries

John Cannon 3 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

Breaking down barriers: Cattle and wildlife compete in Southern Africa

Jim Tan 9 Dec 2019

‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique

David Njagi 5 Dec 2019
Dry riverbed. Image by Dellane Masiya Mhlanga for Mongabay.

Water flowing up the mountain: Development devours forest reserve in Zambia

Carien Du Plessis 4 Dec 2019
Hooded vulture. Image courtesy John Davies/EWT

Lift-off for first African vulture safe zones

Fred Kockott, Tony Carnie 28 Nov 2019
Inspecting a confiscated truck belonging to illegal loggers. Image courtesy Peace Parks Foundation.

Mozambique’s newly empowered rangers, courts catch up with poachers, loggers

Fred Kockott 19 Nov 2019
Tanzanian farmer Julia Yusufu with two of her agricultural tools, a radio and her cell phone. Image courtesy Farm Radio International

Fighting Africa’s fall armyworm invasion with radio shows and phone apps

Stephanie Parker 28 Oct 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

‘Let us trade’: Debate over ivory sales rages ahead of CITES summit

Busani Bafana 11 Jul 2019

Zambia halts plans to dam the Luangwa River

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 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
clearing mines in Angola, a HALO Trust worker wearing blue protective gear on his knees probing grass and dirt with his hands. Credit: The HALO Trust

Angola pledges $60m to fund landmine clearance in national parks

Jim Tan 25 Jun 2019

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

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500

John Cannon 24 Apr 2019

Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

John Cannon 22 Apr 2019

Deforestation diminishes access to clean water, study finds

John Cannon 15 Apr 2019

A plea to Botswana: Please rethink a “Not Enough Fences” approach (commentary)

Steve Osofsky 14 Mar 2019

180 years of herps: Q&A with Luis Ceríaco on Angola’s atlas of life

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Mar 2019

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