When conservation efforts bring a species back from the brink of extinction, it is worth celebrating. It is no easy feat to implement policy changes, and it can be challenging to convince those who ...

South Africa’s national bird, the blue crane, is now at greater risk of extinction after being moved from “near threatened” ...

Conservationists have released five vultures back into the wild on a mountain range in South Africa after they were rescued ...

Five culturally and historically significant sites on the African continent have made the list. They include Maputo National Park in Mozambique and the Gola-Tiwai Complex in Sierra Leone, two ...

Environmental Sciences and Management Unit Professor Louis du Preez and herpetologist Vincent Carruthers have developed an ...

SUPPLEMENT: A Croydon man’s fascination with wildlife saw him travel across Europe and Africa and into the Arctic Circle in ...

The Foreign Office advises against all travel to war-torn Yemen - and it's not hard to see why. It is a no-go zone for Brits ...

Death does not kill alone/Nor does he fight singly/He goes to war with plenty of warriors…/He sends Disease first/He sends ...

The lines above are from Professor Bade Ajuwon’s, ‘Ogun’s Iremoje: A Philosophy of Living and Dying’, taken from Sandra Barnes’ ‘Africa’s Ogun: Old World and New’. It is a chant (Ìrèmòje) by one ...

Did you know you might never witness a more arresting sunrise or sunset than from the white sandy beaches of Takawiri Island?

The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

Protected areas are crucial for wildlife conservation, but many are under unprecedented pressure associated with exponential ...