World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

Conservationists in Valentine’s Day plea to protect ‘mating for life’ penguins - In an effort to save African penguins, researchers have turned to penguin decoys.

This year South Africa authorized the export of up to 800 lion skeletons, and the worry among biologists, conservation groups, and animal-rights activists is that by legitimizing and allowing the ...

and D. Fig. 2000. From colonial to community based conservation: Environmental justice and the national parks in South Africa. Society in Transition 31(1): 22–35. Crawshaw, P.G. Jr. 2004. Depredation ...

The struggle to ensure kindness and fair treatment of animals – or deny it – will take centre stage this year as hunters, conservationists and government lawmakers face off on welfare, wellbeing and ...

Keep reading to find out more about these legendary animals and their conservation status. African savanna elephants, Loxodonta africana africana, are the largest land animals. They can grow to be ...

The eight of us spread out along the same two-track and wait for Eugene Troskie’s signal before marching into the thick South African scrub ... revolved around traditional conservation work like ...

More and more people who love the taste of monkey meat have the cash to buy it. Primatologist Tom Butynski, senior conservation ... much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest ...

Hesperantha evening flower South Africa’s wetlands are biodiversity-rich ecosystems that support a diverse array of plant and animal life ... Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).