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 ...

The research assembled data on the geographic range of 10,000 fish species, and checked those tropical species against the location of 40,000 existing dams and 3,700 dams that ... South Africa ...

Researchers, including those from Rhodes University in South Africa, say the ancient fish, identified from a fossil assemblage from Waterloo Farm in South Africa, may have grown to over 2.5m long.

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.

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.