What does this mean for South Africa’s fish. In response to warming waters, changes in the distribution and abundance of tropical and temperate species have already been recorded.

Freshwater fish are an ‘aquatic version of the canary in the coalmine’ for Africa’s rivers, lakes and wetlands, a new report ...

An estimated 26 per cent of Africa’s freshwater fish species are threatened (including those assessed as Critically ...

Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a seasonal pond, formed during the wet season and already shrinking.

South Africa will limit commercial fishing around key African penguin colonies in a bid to halt a decline in the population of the birds that could result in them becoming extinct within 12 years.

Thousands of years ago, intense tropical cyclones made landfall on the eastern coast of South Africa. And under projected climate change conditions, these damaging phenomena could happen again.

For decades, experts believed one of these fish species, Enteromius neefi or the sidespot barb, lived in the Congo basin and in South Africa, the study said. But some researchers were skeptical.

Further south, University of Technology Sydney's Professor David Booth has been charting the arrival of tropical fish in his local waters. "Back in 2001, we started this study," he said.