South Africa’s vital wetlands are degrading faster than investment in their rehabilitation. As a result, they are facing catastrophic decline. This follows a global trend of wetland decline, a key ...

Dutch investigative journalist Olivier van Beemen published In the Name of Nature: An Investigation into the Neocolonial ...

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

When conservation efforts bring a species back from the brink of extinction, it is worth celebrating. It is no easy feat to ...

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

Nature isn't confined to officially protected areas. A lot can be done to conserve biodiversity in other places too. The ...

The world's oldest multilateral climate fund, the Global Environment Facility, is planning a new wave of wildlife conservation bonds in a bid to help African countries save endangered species and ...

A new global assessment released this week has raised concerns over the continued and accelerating destruction of wetlands, ...

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A refuge for the Western chimpanzee, pygmy hippopotamus and many other globally threatened species, Gola-Tiwai represents one ...

Dogs are five times more effective than humans at this type of search and "also help us find the smaller tortoises which are often overlooked, the hatchlings and the juveniles" ...

The world has lost 411 million hectares of wetlands, the equivalent of half a billion football pitches, and a quarter of the remaining wetlands are now classified as in a state of degradation, ...