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Automating drone-based wildlife surveys saves time and money, study finds

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Aug 2018

Climate change could be killing Africa’s giant baobabs

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2018

Documenting the African elephant’s ‘last stand’: Q&A with filmmakers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

John Cannon 21 May 2018

Rhino poaching in South Africa dipped slightly last year, but ‘crisis continues unabated,’ conservationists say

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2018

After exporting baby elephants, Zimbabwe pledges to turn over new leaf on conservation

Jeremy Hance 23 Jan 2018

Rhino DNA database helps officials nab poachers and traffickers

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2018

African Parks backs marine reserve brimming with wildlife in Mozambique

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2017

Traffickers find new ways to smuggle rhino horn out of Africa

Isabel Esterman 19 Sep 2017

African bush babies gain a new genus

John Cannon 20 Feb 2017

Investors learning to pay heed to community land rights

John Cannon 13 Feb 2017

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Feb 2016

Big increase in little farms is whittling away Angola’s woodlands

Apoorva Joshi 17 Dec 2015

Zimbabweans near protected areas feel good about wildlife. Tourists? Not so much.

Kolawole Talabi 10 Jul 2015

Lions return to Rwanda

Jeremy Hance 29 Jun 2015

Land redistribution in Zimbabwe threatens wildlife and human populations

Brittany Stewart 29 Apr 2015

Firewood fervor may turn Zimbabwe into an ‘outright desert’

Apoorva Joshi 5 Mar 2015

How black rhinos and local communities help each other in Namibia

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2015

Zambia ends trophy hunting ban, elephants fair game

Jeremy Hance 9 Sep 2014

U.S should sanction Mozambique for its role in elephant, rhino poaching, urges NGOs

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2014

Super cute, but tiny, elephant-relative discovered in Namibia

Jeremy Hance 30 Jun 2014

Trophy hunters auction off life of Critically Endangered black rhino

Jeremy Hance 13 Jan 2014

Unlikely success: how Zimbabwe has become a global leader in rhino conservation

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2013

Lions rising: community conservation making a difference for Africa’s kings in Mozambique

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2013

Worst drought in 30 years threatens millions in southern Africa with food insecurity

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2013

Obama to take on elephant and rhino poaching in Africa

Suzanne Goldenberg 3 Jul 2013

Saving Gorongosa: E.O. Wilson on protecting a biodiversity hotspot in Mozambique

Bridget Conneely 30 May 2013

Rhinos moved from South Africa to Botswana for safekeeping

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2013

Rhinos now extinct in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2013

Rhino horn madness: over two rhinos killed a day in South Africa

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2013

Lions for sale: big game hunting combines with lion bone trade to threaten endangered cats

Sébastien Hervieu 18 Apr 2013

Male lions require dense vegetation for successful ambush hunting

Jeremy Hance 20 Mar 2013

Innovative idea: wildlife income may help people withstand drought in Africa

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2013

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