In a landmark victory for conservation, BirdLife South Africa and the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of ...

During an investigation to see whether it was possible to restore an iconic, but endangered, community of shrubland plant ...

Wattled cranes, a winter-breeding, wetland-dependent species, were listed as regionally critically endangered in 2015, with ...

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to the ...

A South African court order issued Tuesday barred for at least 10 years commercial fishing at key breeding colonies for ...

Two Goliath beetle species are in grave danger because cocoa farming has wiped out their forests and they’re being sold on ...

Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

A conservationists’ forum expressed concerns about the legality of the transfer of wild animals to the Ambani-owned centre in ...

New birds have taken up residence at the National Aviary: two unnamed African Penguin chicks. The African Penguin is a ...

Because there are so many living across a very wide area, they are not yet an endangered species, although nearly so. There are huge parts of Africa where beetles are protected. Forests in Nigeria ...

What is the Goliath beetle and why is it so important? The Goliath beetles (genus Goliathus) are among the world’s biggest insects. There are five different species. They grow up to 110mm long ...