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Banner image of an adult wattled crane and its chick, courtesy of Daniel Dolpire/International Crane Foundation.

Outlook improves for wattled crane in South Africa

Kristine Sabillo 11 Apr 2025

Vincent van der Merwe (1983-2025), champion of the cheetah

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2025

Conservationists, fishing industry find balance on protecting African penguins

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Mar 2025
Giant quiver tree, Namaqualand, South Africa. Image by Leonie Joubert.

Bleak future for Karoo succulents as desert expands in South Africa

Leonie Joubert 20 Mar 2025
Five-day accumulated rainfall from Feb. 16-20, 2025, over Botswana. Image courtesy of World Weather Attribution.

Deadly Botswana rains made more likely by climate change, rapid urbanization

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Mar 2025

Rhino poachers imprisoned in back-to-back South Africa sentencing

Spoorthy Raman 10 Feb 2025

Vietnam faces scrutiny for not sharing enough data on rhino horn trade

Victoria Schneider 5 Feb 2025
Banner image of a white rhino at Kruger National Park in South Africa, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rhino horn trafficker jailed in legal first on financial charges in S. Africa

Kristine Sabillo 27 Jan 2025
A close-up image of a Cheetah in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Do cheetahs scavenge? Yes, research says, but also not really

Dann Okoth 24 Jan 2025
right whale breaching

Right whales can live to 130, but in North America they die young

Edward Carver 10 Jan 2025
What singing lemurs can tell us about the origin of music

What singing lemurs can tell us about the origin of music

Samantha Lee 8 Jan 2025

New campaign seeks swifter justice for slain South African wildlife ranger

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2024
Bright red flowers of a miracle clivia (Clivia mirabilis), hang in front of green foliage. Image courtesy Dave Garriock.

Poachers target South Africa’s ‘miracle’ plant with near impunity

Leonie Joubert 20 Dec 2024

Unlike: Brazil Facebook groups give poachers safe space to flex their kills

Adele Santelli 19 Dec 2024

African women’s assembly unites for climate justice

Fanta Mabo 6 Nov 2024
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

Population crash means African penguins are now critically endangered

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2024
Hamba_ASliwa. A male black-footed cat stalking prey in winter 2019. Black-footed cats eat mostly small mammals and birds. Their keen sight and agility mean they are extremely successful hunters. Photo by Alexander Sliwa.

Inbreeding adds to growing threats to Africa’s smallest wildcat, study finds

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Oct 2024
African penguins are now an Endangered species and listed as in need of urgent conservation action. Image by Petro Kotze.

Caracal, meet penguin: How humans pushed unlikely predator and prey together

Petro Kotzé 8 Oct 2024
A serval photographed in the area by camera trap with the Sasol plant behind it in 2019. Image by Dan Loock.

Follow the prey: How servals adapt to an industrialized landscape

Juliette Portala 3 Oct 2024
Two hooded vultures in the Gambia. Image by Roger Sanderson via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Hooded vultures in Ghana and South Africa on the brink, study says

Sean Mowbray 16 Sep 2024

South Africa seeks to settle landmark African penguin lawsuit

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Aug 2024
The translocation team leads a sedated rhino to a crate and its journey to a new home. Image © Michael Dexter/African Parks.

African Parks embarks on critical conservation undertaking for 2,000 rhinos

Simon Espley 22 Aug 2024
Traditional healers use the smoke from the coals of a yellow wood tree (Podocarpus latifolius) to cleanse a cattle herd of problematic spirits and stop the animals from fighting.

‘Everything is a being’ for South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature

Leonie Joubert 19 Aug 2024

South Africa adopts a new climate change law

Bobby Bascomb 9 Aug 2024

120 rhinos moved from breeding program to South African reserves

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jul 2024
The four-person field research team.

34,000-year-old termite mounds in South Africa are still being used

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Jun 2024

‘Explorer elephants’ in transfrontier conservation area offer solution to tree damage

Ryan Truscott 28 Jun 2024

In ‘the century of Africa,’ Mongabay’s new bureau reports its biggest environmental issues and solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Jun 2024
A chacma baboon in Zambia.

Collar cameras shed light on quirky baboon diet

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 May 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024
A captive-bred Karoo dwarf tortoise hatchling. Image courtesy Victor Loehr.

Study: Tiny tortoise may play large role in South Africa’s Karoo landscape

Sean Mowbray 3 Jan 2024

Track-a-mole: Sniffer dog and eDNA help ‘rediscover’ South African golden mole

Liz Kimbrough 29 Nov 2023

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